Before there was a life, there was a record. The Story of Edward/Ellen De Lacy Evans moves through three archival reproductions, admission record, sensational pamphlet, newspaper articles, to trace how one person's existence in colonial Victoria was transformed into a case, a scandal, and a curiosity. Colonial medicine, law, and journalism did not simply document Evans; they produced a version of Evans that the public could consume. It asks who was authorised to record it, and at what cost.