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.
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In October 1898 a woman was found dead in a lagoon on the outskirts of the town of Forbes in NSW. She was identified as Ada Foster, 35, a mother of four.
What few people in the town knew was that the dead woman was actually Kate Kelly, the sister of notorious bushranger Ned Kelly. What was Kate doing in Forbes â 370 kilometres west of Sydney and 470 kilometres from her Kelly clan in north-east Victoria? Was her death murder, suicide or an accident?
âShe deserved betterâ: Rebecca Wilson, author of a new book about Ned Kellyâs sister Kate, with one of her paintings of Kate.