Forgotten Australia

The Notorious Lady Munro – Part One: The Woman in the Waterhole

04.10.2023 - By Forgotten AustraliaPlay

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Download on the App StoreGet it on Google Play

The eccentric Lady Munro cut a swathe through late colonial and early Federation Australia with her drunken antics, defiant unconventionality and mysterious claim to be from one of England’s most famous aristocratic families. The ‘Notorious Lady Munro’, who confessed to having been been ‘drunk around the universe’, was celebrated as ‘one of the most remarkable women alive’ – and stayed alive long enough to read of her own death in the newspapers more than once. Join me for a strange, funny, sad and always surprising deep dive into the utterly forgotten life of our very own blue-blooded lady larrikin.

Parts 2 & 3 available now early and ad-free for Apple Subscribers and Patreon Supporters. **Take advantage of the Apple three-day free trial to hear them and all bonus episodes. Cancel before it expires and you won't pay anything**

Apple - http://apple.co/forgottenaustralia Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/ForgottenAustralia

To submit questions for the Peter Doyle Book Club episode: https://www.speakpipe.com/forgottenaustralia or: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

More episodes from Forgotten Australia