Table of Contents
Prologue: Blonde Mickie 7
Introduction: Woman of the Underworld 11
1 Mary Frith: Jacobean Pickpocket and Fence 19
2 Ann Duck: Eighteenth-Century Street Robber 33
3 A Conscious Mistress of Crime 45
4 Ladies Go A-Thieving 54
5 Emily Lawrence: Victorian Jewel Thief 64
6 Mary Carr: Queen of the Forty Thieves 77
7 Alice Diamond and Maggie Hughes: The Forty Elephants 90
8 Lady Jack: Shop Breaker 104
9 Queenie Day: The Terror of Soho 114
10 Rescued from the Footnotes 123
11 Lilian Goldstein: Smash-and-Grab Raider 133
12 The Forty Elephants Bar 149
13 Noreen Harbord: Queen of the Contraband Coast 175
14 Zoe Progl: No. 1 Woman Burglar 190
15 The Great Escape 198
16 Shirley Pitts: Queen of the Shoplifters 208
17 The Criminal Masquerade 217
18 Liberation of the Female Criminal 226
19 Chris Tchaikovsky: Queen of Charisma 233
20 Looking for Trouble 245
21 Joan Hannington: Diamond Thief 257
22 Gangsters' Molls 269
23 Joyti De-Laurey: Queen of Cash 276
24 Lady Justice 288
Sources 296
Select Bibliography 312
Acknowledgements 315
Other Titles Caitlin Davies 316
Index 317
