Title Mad or bad? : the exploits of Amy Bock, 1859-1943 / Jenny Coleman.

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Dunedin : Otago University Press, 2010.

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Description	382 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
	1 online resource
Note	Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 2, 2017).
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary	Amy Bock gained notoriety as a con artist who impersonated a man and married an unsuspecting woman.
Contents	Telling tales : the con artist and the biographer -- Convicts, criminals and artists : 'it is in my blood' -- Inherited 'peculiarities' from her mother -- 'So I beg of you to excuse all the errors this time' -- A perfect mania for what she calls 'shopping' -- There was a great deal of method in her madness -- Unique in colonial criminology -- The case of the female bridegroom -- A startling denouement -- Declared an habitual criminal -- Mad or bad?
Subject	Bock, Amy, 1859-1943.
	Bock, Amy, 1859-1943. (OCoLC)fst01923835
	Swindlers and swindling -- New Zealand -- Biography.
	Impostors and imposture -- New Zealand -- Biography.
	Impostors and imposture -- New Zealand.
	BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology.
	Impostors and imposture. (OCoLC)fst00968230
	Swindlers and swindling. (OCoLC)fst01140414
	New Zealand. (OCoLC)fst01204542
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Cover Title	Mad or bad? the life and exploits of Amy Bock
Other Form:	Print version: Coleman, Jenny Mad or Bad? : The Life and Exploits of Amy Bock, 1859-1943 Dunedin : Otago University Press,c2010 9781877372711
ISBN	9780947522193 (electronic book)

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