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Elizabeth Jessie Hickman (née Hunt; 6 September 1890 – 1936) was an Australian bushranger.She had multiple aliases but is often referred to as The Lady Bushranger.In the 1920s she established herself as leader of a gang of cattle thieves in the area that is now Wollemi National Park.
Her first name is not given and she is called 'Mrs Winter'. The Monitor reports two incidents from a period in Tennant's career when he appears to have spent time away from his gang. Tennant had been shot in July 1827 by James Farrell at an outstation on the Yass River . [ 5 ]
A bushranger on horseback being chased by the police in Hard-pressed (Flight of a Bushranger), painted by S. T. Gill, c. 1853. The earliest documented use of the term appears in a February 1805 issue of The Sydney Gazette, which reports that a cart had been stopped between Sydney and Hawkesbury by three men "whose appearance sanctioned the suspicion of their being bush-rangers". [3]
Edward Kelly (December 1854 [a] – 11 November 1880) was an Australian bushranger, outlaw, gang leader and convicted police-murderer.One of the last bushrangers, he is known for wearing a suit of bulletproof armour during his final shootout with the police.
Lulu, in Frank Wedekind's plays and Alban Berg's opera of the same name; Mamie Stover, The Revolt of Mamie Stover by William Bradford Huie; Manon Lescaut; Mistress Overdone, manager of a bordello in Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare; Moll Flanders, The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe
Joseph Bolitho Johns (c. 1826–1900), English bushranger, also known as Moondyne Joe, transported to Western Australia for theft; George Jones (c. 1815–1844), English bushranger, transported to Van Diemen's Land for theft; William Jones (1809–1873), Welsh Chartist, transported to Van Diemen's Land for his role in the Newport Rising
Matthew Brady (1799 – 4 May 1826) was an English-born convict who became a bushranger in Van Diemen's Land (modern-day Tasmania). He was sometimes known as "Gentleman Brady" due to his good treatment and fine manners when robbing his victims.
Martin Cash (baptised 10 October 1808 – 26 August 1877) was a notorious Irish-Australian convict bushranger, known for escaping twice from Port Arthur, Van Diemen's Land. His 1870 autobiography, The Adventures of Martin Cash , ghostwritten by James Lester Burke, also a former convict, became a best seller in Australia .