The missing sister: Giving life to the story of Nedâs sister, Kate
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Rebecca Wilson
Allen & Unwin, $32.99
How do you capture someone as elusive as Kate Kelly and bring her to life in a way to allow the reader to more fully understand this complex woman, who died in 1898 at the age of 35, drowned in a lake at Forbes, in western New South Wales?
Artist and writer Rebecca Wilson, a descendant of the pioneering couple Pierce and Mary Collits, is better placed than most to unwrap the enigma of Kate, younger sister to Ned, Dan and James. Wilson grew up in Forbes, and it was her relatives who gave Kate, known at the time as Ada Hennessey, her first job as a domestic servant at Cadow Station after she had left Victoria to escape her past.