Coming soon from Inside History

Intemperance & the Train of Evils:
A life on the wrong side of the tracks
in colonial Brisbane

Prostitute. Prisoner.
Alcoholic. Lunatic.

These were just some of the labels imposed on the Fortitude Valley girl who grew up to spend almost 70 years of her life in Queensland prisons, lock hospitals and asylums. This is her story.

Intemperance & the Train of Evils provides an all too rare insight into the world of the 'fallen women' of colonial Brisbane, and of the disapproving society that kept them trapped on an institutional merry-go-round.

80 pages, with illustrations and full
endnotes.
Foreword by Senator Claire Moore

Available November 2008
RRP: $10.00

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