| Record Number |
831903 |
| ISBN |
9780994287908 (Overdrive: electronic bk.) |
| Author |
Limprecht, Eleanor author. |
| Title |
Long Bay [electronic resource] / Eleanor Limprecht. |
| Publisher/Date |
Collingwood, Victoria : Sleepers Publishing, 2015. |
| Pagination etc. |
1 online resource. |
| Contents note |
Downloadable eBook. |
| Summary Note |
Set in Sydney in the first decade of the 1900s, Long Bay is based on the true case of a young female abortionist who was convicted of manslaughter and served out her sentence in the newly opened Long Bay Womens Reformatory the first of its kind in Australia. The woman, Rebecca Sinclair, was pregnant when she went to prison. Long Bay looks at how Rebecca became involved in the burgeoning illegal abortion racket in Edwardian-era Sydney and how she was drawn into Donald Sinclairs underworld. In unadorned prose, it examines the limiting effects of poverty, the mistakes we make for love, and the bond between mother and child. |
| Subject - Name |
Sinclair, Rebecca -- Fiction |
| Subject |
Long Bay Correctional Centre -- Fiction |
| Prisoners -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Fiction |
| Women prisoners -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Fiction |
| Australian fiction -- 21st century |
| Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Social conditions -- 1901-1945 -- Fiction |
| Biographical fiction. |
| Electronic books. |
| Internet Site |
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