Pretty Dulcie was one of the many names the press coined Dulcie May Markham .

She was attracted to, and associated with, many majorcriminals of the 1930s, 1940's and 1950s. She closely involved with Sydney’s razor gang in an era of organised crime.

During her criminal career, she had amassed 100 convictionsin New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia for prostitution, vagrancy, consorting, assaulting police and the public, keeping a brothel, drunkenness, and drunk driving, and was sent to prison on numerousoccasions.