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Tanya Bretherton on The Suicide Bride

Thu, 23 May

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Upstairs at Better Read Than Dead

Could a chilling murder-suicide in Newtown in early 1904 answer the age-old question of whether depravity is caused by nature or nurture? Sociologist Dr Tanya Bretherton investigates the heartbreaking story of the suicide bride Ellie Sly & unearths a part of Newtown's history.

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Tanya Bretherton on The Suicide Bride
Tanya Bretherton on The Suicide Bride

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23 May 2019, 6:30 pm

Upstairs at Better Read Than Dead, 265 King Street, Newtown NSW, Australia

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About The Event

Whenever society produces a depraved criminal we wonder: is it nature or is it nurture? Could a chilling murder-suicide in Newtown in early 1904 answer that question? Join author and sociologist Dr Tanya Bretherton who will throw a spotlight on a dark corner of Newtown's history as she dissects the heartbreaking story of Ellie Sly, the suicide bride, the chilling story of a charlatan, a murdersuicide, and a family tree so twisted that it sprouts monsters.

About the Book

Whenever society produces a depraved criminal, we wonder: is it nature or is it nurture?

When the charlatan Alicks Sly murdered his wife, Ellie, and killed himself with a cut-throat razor in a house in Sydney's Newtown in early 1904, he set off a chain of events that could answer that question. He also left behind mysteries that might never be solved. Sociologist Dr Tanya Bretherton traces the brutal story of…

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