A scandal in Bohemia [Paperback]
Haigh, Gideon2018
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As enigmatic in life as in death, Mollie Dean was a woman determined to transcend. Creatively ambitious and sexually precocious, at twenty-five she was a poet, aspiring novelist and muse on the peripheries of Melbourne's bohemian salons - until one night in 1930 she was brutally slain by an unknown killer in a laneway while walking home. Her family was implicated. Those in her circle, including her acclaimed artist lover Colin Colahan, were shamed. Her memory was anxiously suppressed. Yet the mystery of her death rendered more mysterious her life and Mollie's story lingered, incorporated into memoir, literature, television, theatre and song, most notably in George Johnston's classic My Brother Jack. In A Scandal in Bohemia, Gideon Haigh explodes the true crime genre with a murder story about life as well as death. Armed with only a single photograph and echoes of Mollie's voice, he has reassembled the precarious life of a talented woman without a room of her own - a true outsider, excluded by the very world that celebrated her in its art. In this work of restorative justice, Mollie Dean emerges as a tenacious, charismatic, independent woman for whom society had no place, and whom everybody tried to forget - but nobody could.
Main title:
A scandal in Bohemia [Paperback] / Gideon Haigh.
Author:
Imprint:
[Melbourne, Victoria] : Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2018.
Collation:
310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), facsimilies, portraits ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780143789574
Dewey class:
364.1523099451364.1523
Language:
English
Subject:
Dean, Mollie, 1905-1930Dean, Mollie, 1905-1930 -- Friends and associatesDean, Mollie, 1905-1930 -- Death and burialWomen -- Crimes against -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- Case studiesArtists' models -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- BiographyMurder -- Victoria -- Melbourne -- Case studiesMelbourne (Vic.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th centuryMelbourne (Vic.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century
BRN:
319314
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumaris Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 364.1523 DEA | Available |
| Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 364.1523 DEA | Onloan - Due: 11 Apr 2024 |
| Hampton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Biography | 364.1523 DEA | Onloan - Due: 18 May 2024 |