{{Short description|2025 book by Lucy Sussex and Megan Brown}} {{Other uses|Outrageous Fortune (disambiguation)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2025}} {{Infobox book | italic title = | name = Outrageous Fortunes | image = File:Outrageous Fortunes cover.jpg | author = {{unbulleted list|Lucy Sussex|Megan Brown}} | country = Australia | subject = | genre = Biography | publisher = La Trobe University Press | pub_date = 11 February 2025 | pages = 336 | awards = | isbn = 9781760645052 }}
'''''Outrageous Fortunes''''' is a 2025 biography of Mary Fortune and her son George Fortune by Lucy Sussex and Megan Brown.<ref>{{cite web |title=''Outrageous Fortunes'' by Lucy Sussex, Megan Brown |url=https://www.blackincbooks.com.au/books/outrageous-fortunes-0 |website=Black Inc |access-date=14 October 2025 |language=en |date=25 July 2024}}</ref> It was reviewed in ''Australian Historical Studies'',<ref name = "ahs">{{cite journal |last1=Franks |first1=Rachel |title=Review. ''Outrageous Fortunes: The Adventures of Mary Fortune, Crime-Writer, and Her Criminal Son'': By Megan Brown and Lucy Sussex. |journal=Australian Historical Studies |date=2025 |pages=1–2 |doi=10.1080/1031461X.2025.2551895}}</ref> ''The Australian'',<ref name = "aus">{{cite news |last1=Wooley |first1=Charles |title=''Outrageous Fortunes'' book review: a tale untold for too long |url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/culture/outrageous-fortunes-book-review-a-tale-untold-for-too-long/news-story/4adcdee7c56731053a35ab9ae2c4f698 |access-date=13 October 2025 |work=The Australian |date=13 March 2025}}</ref> ''The Sydney Morning Herald,''<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sheil |first1=Pat |title=This woman pioneered crime fiction – while her son committed the crimes |url=https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/this-woman-pioneered-crime-fiction-while-her-son-committed-the-crimes-20250228-p5lfzh.html |access-date=13 October 2025 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=11 March 2025 |language=en}}</ref> and ''Australian Book Review''.<ref name = "abr">{{cite web |last1=Goldsworthy |first1=Kerryn |title=Kerryn Goldsworthy reviews ''Outrageous Fortunes: The adventures of Mary Fortune, crime-writer, and her criminal son'' by Megan Brown and Lucy Sussex |url=https://www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/archive/2025/1016-june-2025-no-476/14187-kerryn-goldsworthy-reviews-outrageous-fortunes-the-adventures-of-mary-fortune-crime-writer-and-her-criminal-son-by-megan-brown-and-lucy-sussex |website=Australian Book Review |access-date=13 October 2025 |date=June 2025|issue=476}}</ref>
==Reception==
In her review in ''Australian Historical Studies'', the scholar Rachel Franks wrote that the biography was a testament to what could be achieved through archival research, and that while some readers might be overwhelmed by its level of detail, the book would appear to both popular and scholarly audiences.<ref name = "ahs"/> In ''Australian Book Review'', the writer Kerryn Goldsworthy wrote that the book was well-written and underpinned by "scrupulous scholarship". She noted, however, that the divergent paths of Mary's and George's lives meant that the two stories did not always fit together into a cohesive whole.<ref name = "abr"/> In ''The Australian'', Charles Wooley described the book as "dense and wandering" and wrote that it made for an engrossing read.<ref name = "aus"/>
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