Carol Baxter Carol Baxter i(A100000 works by) (a.k.a. Carol J. Baxter)
Gender: Female
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1 2 y separately published work icon The Fabulous Flying Mrs Miller : An Australian's True Story of Adventure, Danger, Romance and Murder Carol Baxter , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2017 10655689 2017 single work biography

''Mrs Keith Miller, internationally known aviatrix, was taken to the county jail here today and held for investigation by State Attorney's investigators. Jail attendants said they understood she was held in connection with the shooting of an airline pilot.'

'Petite, glamorous and beguiling, Jessie 'Chubbie' Miller was one remarkable woman ... flyer, thrill seeker, heartbreaker. No adventure was too wild for her, no danger too extreme. And all over the world men adored her...

'When the young Jessie left suburban Melbourne and her newspaperman husband in 1927, little did she know that she'd become the first woman to complete an England to Australia flight (with a black silk gown thrown into her small flight bag, just in case), or fly the first air race for women with Amelia Earhart, or that she would disappear over the Florida Straits feared lost forever only to charm her way to a rescue. Nor could she have predicted that five years later she'd find herself at the centre of one of the most notorious and controversial murder trials in United States history. And this all began with something as ridiculously mundane as a pat of butter...

'The Fabulous Flying Mrs Miller is a spellbinding story of an extraordinary woman - an international celebrity during the golden age of aviation - and her passionate and spirited life...' (Publication summary)

1 3 y separately published work icon Black Widow : The True Story of Australia’s First Serial Killer Carol Baxter , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2015 8521384 2015 single work biography

'Two inquests, four trials, three hung juries and the executioner...but was Louisa Collins really a husband killer? Was she the callous adulteress, drunkard and liar known as the Botany Bay Murderess and the Lucrezia Borgia of Botany Bay? Or was this mother of seven a spirited and defiant woman who was punished for breaching society's expectations of womanly behaviour?

'Compelling, freshly told and richly detailed, Black Widow uncovers the truth of a story that challenged the morality, the politics and the notion of law in an Australia on the edge of nationhood.' (Publication summary)

1 1 y separately published work icon The Peculiar Case of the Electric Constable Carol Baxter , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2014 8096252 2014 single work biography

'When Quaker forger John Tawell disembarked in Sydney in 1815, none could have imagined that he would become the most historically 'influential' - albeit unwittingly - of Australia's 160,000 convict transportees. Tawell established Australia's first retail pharmacy and built the first Quaker meeting house in New South Wales. He became a rich convict nabob like his colleague Samuel Terry, the Botany Bay Rothschild, however unlike Terry he eventually decided to take his fortune home to England.

'Shunned by the Quakers and ridiculed by the broader community, he was a deeply troubled man when he caught the 7.42pm train from Slough station near Windsor Castle on New Years' Day 1845, leaving a dying woman sprawled on a nearby cottage floor. Had he murdered her or hadn't he?

'Between Slough and London's Paddington railway station ran the only electric telegraph operation in the entire world that was capable of sending a random message at a moment's notice. 'A murder has just been committed,' began the message that pursued Tawell. The consequences were extraordinary. Tawell's trial was a sensation, the struggling electric telegraph industry became a phenomenal success, the electricity industry was launched, and the Communication Revolution began.' (Publication summary)

1 Mrs Thunderbolt : Setting the Record Straight on the Life and Times of Mary Ann Bugg David Andrew Roberts , Carol Baxter , 2013 single work biography criticism
— Appears in: Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society , June vol. 99 no. 1 2013; (p. 54-76)
1 Exposing an Expose : Fact Versus Fiction in the Resurrection of Captain Thunderbolt David Andrew Roberts , Carol Baxter , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , March vol. 36 no. 1 2012; (p. 1-15)
'In March 2010, the NSW Legislative Council passed a remarkable motion demanding the release of archival records relating to the death of the bushranger, "Captain Thunderbolt", who was shot by police in the New England (NSW) in May 1870. The interest in this 140-year-old episode from the colonial past reflects a suspicion that the police shot the wrong man in 1870 and that the colonial authorities engaged in a high-level conspiracy to conceal this from the public. More seriously, it has been alleged that the NSW government actively maintained a strict censorship over secret documents that reveal the true circumstances of the bushranger's death. Even more remarkable is the fact that the Legislative Council motion was employed to advance the claims made in an historical novel. This article considers the alternative account of Thunderbolt's death presented in Gregory Hamilton and Barry Sinclair's Thunderbolt: Scourge of the Ranges (2009), and investigates the allegations concerning the censorship of historical records in the service of an ongoing state and police conspiracy. We demonstrate that the case made in the novel, and promoted in the NSW Parliament, has been built on a misrepresentation of the nature and practice of state record-keeping in NSW.' (Publisher's abstract)
1 6 y separately published work icon Captain Thunderbolt and His Lady : The True Story of Bushrangers Frederick Ward and​ Mary Ann Bugg Carol Baxter , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2011 Z1809774 2011 single work biography 'He was the gentleman bushranger ... she was the woman who rode with him.

'This is the true story of Captain Thunderbolt and his lady. "Bail up!" demanded Captain Thunderbolt before he shouted the bar with the inn keeper's own profits. Driven into banditry by injustice, this colonial Robin Hood, magnificent horseman and skilled bushman was celebrated by his victims as vigorously as he was hunted by the law. She was his chief lieutenant, his eyes and his ears. Intelligent and beautiful, Mary Ann Bugg dressed as a man, rode like a man, and helped keep Thunderbolt ahead of the troopers and trackers intent on pursuing him to his end. Until one day...

'Compellingly written and richly detailed, Captain Thunderbolt and His Lady has it all - action, drama, and two protagonists who defied social conventions for freedom. This is an unputdownable story of an extraordinary partnership and a fresh retelling of one of Australia's greatest bushranging stories.' (From the publisher's website.)
1 Speech All Their Own Carol Baxter , 2008 single work correspondence
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , November vol. 3 no. 10 2008; (p. 26)
1 4 y separately published work icon An Irresistible Temptation : The True Story of Jane New and a Colonial Scandal Carol Baxter , Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2006 Z1325224 2006 single work biography

'In 1829 at the Supreme Court in Sydney, the bewitching Jane New was sentenced to death. Her crime: shoplifting a bolt of printed French silk. But was she guilty? Many had their doubts. Although a legal technicality soon quashed Jane's sentence, the autocratic Governor Ralph Darling refused to set her free. Like bees to the honey pot, the gentlemen of Sydney swarmed to Jane's defence including barrister and political agitator William Charles Wentworth and Supreme Court Registrar John Stephen Jr, who were both vigorous and manipulative in their appeals to set her free. An Irresistible Temptation is set against the backdrop of a particularly divisive period in colonial New South Wales. Not only did the scandal titillate Sydney and its legal and political ramifications push the colony to the brink of a constitutional crisis, but it contributed to the savagery of Governor Darling's public vilification and bestowed upon Jane New a place in the annals of Australian colonial history.' - back cover

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