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Lisa Wilkinson

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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her

That takes courage.

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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her

That takes enormous courage.

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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her

But they wanted to be back with loved ones.

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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her

And so William and Evelyn reunite eventually in London.

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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her

and they marry 10 days later in Southampton, the most beautiful church I think I've ever been in.

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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her

And, you know, it was quite something in researching the book, you know, walking down that aisle that just, this was everything Evelyn hoped for was to be reunited with her William.

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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her

He wrote to J Bruce Ismay because Evelyn told him the story of J Bruce Ismay, who at the time was one of the most reviled people in the world.

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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her

He had to front up to the US inquiry and then again to the UK inquiry.

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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her

And he was asked, how is it?

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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her

that you managed to get a spot in the lifeboat.

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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her

Captain Smith, of course, went down with the ship, as is the great tradition, but J. Bruce Ismay survived.

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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her

And he was deeply offended at the question.

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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her

at the impertinence of the question asked at the inquiry.

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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her

And he said, how dare you?

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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her

Do you think I am the sort of man who would take a spot on a lifeboat when women and children are still waiting for their own spots?

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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her

Well, he meant it as a rhetorical question, but the truth is, yes, he was, because of the 434 women who were on that ship, 130 of them perished, and almost half the children perished as well.

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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her

But J. Bruce Ismay got out of there alive.

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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her

But for William, J. Bruce Ismay was the man who

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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her

who managed to save Evelyn's life by ordering her into that lifeboat.

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How one Australian woman survived the sinking of the Titanic and why no one knows about her

And so he wrote to him to thank him.