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Dr Leigh S.L. Straw is Senior Lecturer in History at the Notre Dame, Fremantle. She specialises in Australian history, modern U.S. history, and crime studies.
Books
- Straw, Leigh 2021, The Petticoat Parade: Madam Monnier and the Roe Street Brothels, Fremantle Press.
- Leigh Straw Drunks, Pests and Harlots: Criminal Women in Perth and Fremantle, 1900-1939 2013 (humming earth, Kilkerran, Scotland)
- Straw, Leigh 2015, Limestone, Kennedy & Boyd [fiction].
- Straw, Leigh 2016, The Worst Woman in Sydney: The Life and Crimes of Kate Leigh, NewSouth Publishing. GG: "Very impressive biography which both conceals and then shows the full extent of the detailed research that has gone into this."
- Straw, Leigh 2017, After the War: Returned Soldiers and the Mental and Physical Scars of World War 1, UWAP.
- Straw, Leigh 2019, Angel of Death: Dulcie Markham, Australia’s Most Beautiful Bad Woman, Harper Collins.
Articles
Straw, Leigh 2017, [[../fhs/fs/9/Straw.html|'Outcast Women: Offending the Good Order in Fremantle]], 1900-1939', Fremantle Studies, 9: 88-106.
Straw, Leigh 2022, 'The suffering begins: returned soldiers, families and the aftermath of World War 1 in Western Australia', Fremantle Studies, 11: 81-93. [presented Fremantle Studies Day 2018]
Links
Worst Woman page at NewSouth Publishing
Article about Kate Leigh at NewSouth Publishing
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