?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=The+case+of+Mary+Dean%3A+Sex%2C+poisoning+and+gender+relations+in+Australia&rft.creator=Brien%2C+Donna+L.&rft.subject=Mary+Dean&rft.subject=George+Dean&rft.subject=Caroline+Seymour&rft.subject=The+Dean+Case&rft.subject=biography&rft.subject=fictionalised+biography&rft.subject=creative+nonfiction&rft.subject=memoir&rft.subject=non-fiction&rft.subject=writing+processes&rft.subject=Australian+history&rft.subject=women's+history&rft.subject=microhistory&rft.subject=creative+writing&rft.subject=women&rft.description=The+genre+of+biography+is%2C+by+nature%2C+imprecise+and+limited.+Real+lives+are+lived+synchronously+and+diversely%3B+they+do+not+divide+spontaneously+into+chapters%2C+subjects+or+themes.+All+biographers+construct+stories%2C+in+the+process+forcing+the+disordered+complexity+of+an+actual+life+into+a+neat+literary+form.+This+doctoral+submission+comprises+a+book+length+creative+work%2C+Poisoned%3A+The+Trials+of+Mary+Dean%2C+and+a+reflective+written+component+on+that+creative+work%2C+Writing+Fictionalised+Biography.%0D%0A%0D%0APoisoned+is+a+biography+of+Mary+Dean%2C+who%2C+although+repeatedly+poisoned+by+her+husband+at+the+end+of+the+nineteenth+century%2C+did+not+die.+This+biography%2C+presented+in+the+form+of+a+first-person+memoir%2C+is+based+closely+on+historical+evidence+and+is+supported+with+discursive+notes+and+a+select+bibliography.%0D%0A%0D%0AThe+reflective+written+component%2C+Writing+Fictionalised+Biography%2C+outlines+the+process+and+challenges+of+writing+a+biography+when+the+source+material+available+is+inadequate+and+unreliable.+In+writing+Poisoned+my+genre+solution+has+been+fictionalised+biography+biography+which+is+historically+diligent+while+utilising+fictional+writing+strategies+and+incorporating+fictional+passages.+This+written+component+reflectively+discusses+how+I+arrived+at+that+solution.+It+includes+discussion+of+the+sources+I+utilised+in+writing+Poisoned%2C+including+the+limitations+of+trial+transcripts+and+other+court+records+as+biographical+evidence%3B+useful+precursors+to+the+form%3B+the+process+wherein+I+located+both+a+form+for+my+fictionalised+biography+and+a+voice+for+my+biographical+subject%3B+possible+models+I+considered%3B+how+I+distinguished+established+fact+from+speculative+supposition+in+the+text%3B+as+well+as+some+of+the+ambivalences+and+ethical+concerns+such+a+narrative+process+implies.&rft.publisher=Queensland+University+of+Technology&rft.date=2003&rft.type=Thesis&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.relation=https%3A%2F%2Feprints.qut.edu.au%2F117977%2F1%2FT%2520%2528CI%2529%252094%2520-%2520THE%2520CASE%2520OF%2520MARY%2520DEAN.pdf&rft.rights=free_to_read&rft.relation=Brien%2C+Donna+L.+(2003)+The+case+of+Mary+Dean%3A+Sex%2C+poisoning+and+gender+relations+in+Australia.+PhD+thesis%2C+Queensland+University+of+Technology.&rft.id_number=https%3A%2F%2Feprints.qut.edu.au%2F117977%2F&rft.identifier=Creative+Industries+Faculty%3B+Creative+Writing+%26+Literary+Studies