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In the spring of 1917 an apprentice from the Cumberland Paper Mills, just outside Sydney, was walking along a bush track beside the Lane Cove River when he discovered the partially burnt body of an unidentified woman. The arrest three years later of a 45-year-old Italian, Eugenia Falleni, for murder, led to an investigation that fascinated Australia. Known in the newspapers as the Man-Woman Case, the trial revealed that from the time she had left New Zealand and gone to sea as a cabin boy, Eugenia Falleni had lived at least twenty years of her life in the guise of a man. Suzanne Falkiner has written a remarkable story that follows the course of her own efforts to accurately reconstruct Eugenias extraordinary life, and provides an intriguing account of her subsequent trial. This is a new edition of the first biography of Eugenia Falleni, who is also the subject of a 2012 book by the Sydney based Queens Counsel, Mark Tedeschi.
Paperback, 304 Pages, Orig. Publ. 1988, This Ed. Publ. 2014
Author: Suzanne Falkiner