- Title:
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The Remarkable Mrs Reibey
- Written by:
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Grantlee Kieza
- Read by:
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Deidre Rubenstein
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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12
- Duration:
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13 hours 19 minutes
- Published:
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May 03 2023
- Available Date:
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May 03 2023
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781038641854
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Australian; History
- Publisher:
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ABC Audio
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Format
Price
Bolinda price
Bestselling author
Australian author
Award winning journalist
Shortlisted Indie Book Awards / Non Fiction 2024
Shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards / People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award 2024
A vivid portrait of the woman on the Australian $20 note – a cross-dressing horse thief and Australia's first female business tycoon.
As a teenage orphan in England in 1791, Mary Reibey was sentenced to death for stealing a horse. When police cornered her, she was dressed as a boy, and she maintained that disguise until she was unmasked at her trial. Due to her 'tender age', Reibey was spared the hangman's noose and sentenced to seven years' transportation to the colony of New South Wales. With the odds stacked against her, Reibey went on to become Australia's first female business tycoon and the richest woman in the colony, founding the Bank of New South Wales (Westpac), now one of the nation's biggest financial institutions.
In this engaging and meticulously researched portrait, the acclaimed author of bestsellers such as Mrs Kelly, Banks, Banjo and Monash, brings to life the woman immortalised on the Australian $20 note.
'Kieza is a prolific and successful biographer ... He has a fluid writing style in which he wears his research lightly, yet it is thoroughly annotated.' (on Banks)
Spectator Australia
‘The author writes with the immediacy of a fine documentary … an easy, informative read, bringing historic personalities to life.’
Ballarat Courier