Description
‘The intensity of the strain upon her temperament must have been very great to have rendered her short career so remarkably eventful and so fruitful of evil.’ -Mr Taylor of Hobart, 1894
Brunswick baby-minder Minnie Thwaites eked out a precarious existence by taking in the unwanted babies of other women. But there is something shocking about her business that has ramifications long after her death.
In her first major work since the 2002 opera Lindy, Judith Rodriguez recounts in vivid verse and lyrics the bleak tragedy of Minnie Thwaites, a woman trying to make good during the 1890s Depression.
Specifications:
Publisher: Arcade Publications
Year: 2024 (first published 2011)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 159pp
ISBN: 9780987171405
Other titles in this series:
- Chasing The Rainbow: EW Cole and the Bourke Street Book Arcade by Lisa Lang
- Making Modern Melbourne: From Illegal Village to Marvellous Metropolis by Jenny Lee
- Madame Brussels: Meet Marvellous Melbourne’s ‘Queen of Harlotry’ by LM Robinson
- MacRobertsonland: Melbourne Chocolate Entrepreneur Macpherson Robertson by Jill Robertson
- Melbourne Remade: The Gentrification of the City CBD by Seamus O’Hanlon
- A Forger’s Tale: The Extraordinary Story of Henry Savery, Australia’s First Novelist by Rod Howard
- A Walking Shadow: The Remarkable Double Life of Edward Oxford by Jenny Sinclair
- Composite City: Arcade Almanac 2024 by Assorted Authors
239 A'Beckett Street Melbourne, Victoria, 3000 
03 9326 9288 
office@historyvictoria.org.au 
Office & Library: Weekdays 9am-5pm
Book Reviews Reviews
There are no reviews yet.