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To be honest, I don't think her past was explored all that much in the pre-Crisis continuity. On Earth-2 she was originally a house wife who left her abusive husband and became a jewel thief after she found the success of stealing back her jewellery from her husband's vault very thrilling. Prior to that she fabricated the story about being flight attendent who became Catwoman due to amnesia in order to start her life over. I actually posted that story a while back, which is also one of my favourites from the pre-Crisis continuity.