The Resource The Amazing Mrs Livesey : the remarkable story of Australia's greatest imposter, Freda Marnie Nicholls
The Amazing Mrs Livesey : the remarkable story of Australia's greatest imposter, Freda Marnie Nicholls
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The item The Amazing Mrs Livesey : the remarkable story of Australia's greatest imposter, Freda Marnie Nicholls represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
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- Summary
- An attractive young woman from a respectable middle-class family in Manchester, she had over 40 aliases, eight official marriages, four children and five divorces. Her story stretches from industrial England to the French Riviera, from Ireland to New York, Shanghai, New Zealand, the Isle of Man and across Australia. Ethel claimed she was a cotton heiress, wartime nurse, casino hostess, stowaway, artist, opera singer, gambler, spy, close friend of the King, air raid warden, charity queen and even wife of Australian test cricketer Jack Fingleton. When her career imploded (with the abandonment of her glittering society marriage in post-war Sydney just two hours before the guests were due to arrive), the story of the Amazing Mrs Livesey was blazoned across newspapers around the world. But what was fact and what was fiction? With a prologue by Ethel Livesey's granddaughter, this extraordinary and constantly surprising story of the woman who was possibly Australia's greatest fraudster is told for the first time in rich and fascinating detail
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 320 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9781760290146
- Label
- The Amazing Mrs Livesey : the remarkable story of Australia's greatest imposter
- Title
- The Amazing Mrs Livesey
- Title remainder
- the remarkable story of Australia's greatest imposter
- Statement of responsibility
- Freda Marnie Nicholls
- Title variation
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- Remarkable story of Australia's greatest imposter
- amazing Mrs Livesey
- Title variation remainder
- the remarkable story of Australias greatest imposter
- Subject
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- trueAustralia
- trueLife stories -- People in history
- trueFraud
- trueImpostors
- trueSwindlers and swindling -- Biography
- Imposters and imposture
- trueAustralian literature
- trueBiographies
- trueBankruptcy
- Swindlers and swindling -- Australia -- Biography
- trueLivesey, Ethel
- trueSwindlers and swindling
- trueTruthfulness and falsehood
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- An attractive young woman from a respectable middle-class family in Manchester, she had over 40 aliases, eight official marriages, four children and five divorces. Her story stretches from industrial England to the French Riviera, from Ireland to New York, Shanghai, New Zealand, the Isle of Man and across Australia. Ethel claimed she was a cotton heiress, wartime nurse, casino hostess, stowaway, artist, opera singer, gambler, spy, close friend of the King, air raid warden, charity queen and even wife of Australian test cricketer Jack Fingleton. When her career imploded (with the abandonment of her glittering society marriage in post-war Sydney just two hours before the guests were due to arrive), the story of the Amazing Mrs Livesey was blazoned across newspapers around the world. But what was fact and what was fiction? With a prologue by Ethel Livesey's granddaughter, this extraordinary and constantly surprising story of the woman who was possibly Australia's greatest fraudster is told for the first time in rich and fascinating detail
- Summary
- The truly remarkable life of the notorious Ethel Livesey, a serial fraudster and confidence trickster who became a media sensation after she ran out on her society wedding in 1945 and was later arrested for obtained goods by false pretences
- Biography type
- individual biography
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10523494
- Cataloging source
- ANL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Nicholls, Freda Marnie
- Dewey number
- 364.163
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- portraits
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Livesey, Ethel
- Swindlers and swindling
- Imposters and imposture
- Fraud
- Truthfulness and falsehood
- Swindlers and swindling
- Target audience
- adult
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- the remarkable story of Australia's greatest imposter
- Label
- The Amazing Mrs Livesey : the remarkable story of Australia's greatest imposter, Freda Marnie Nicholls
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- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
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- still image
- text
- Content type code
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- sti
- txt
- Content type MARC source
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- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000056563226
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 320 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781760290146
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)930630148
- Label
- The Amazing Mrs Livesey : the remarkable story of Australia's greatest imposter, Freda Marnie Nicholls
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
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- still image
- text
- Content type code
-
- sti
- txt
- Content type MARC source
-
- rdacontent
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000056563226
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 320 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781760290146
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits
- System control number
- (OCoLC)930630148
Subject
- trueAustralia
- trueAustralian literature
- trueBankruptcy
- trueBiographies
- trueFraud
- Imposters and imposture
- trueImpostors
- trueLife stories -- People in history
- trueLivesey, Ethel
- trueSwindlers and swindling
- Swindlers and swindling -- Australia -- Biography
- trueSwindlers and swindling -- Biography
- trueTruthfulness and falsehood
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