Nineteenth Century Female Poisoners
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Nineteenth Century Female Poisoners
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Author : V. Nagy
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-02-18
Nineteenth Century Female Poisoners written by V. Nagy and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-18 with History categories.
Nineteenth-Century Female Poisoners investigates the Essex poisoning trials of 1846 to 1851 where three women were charged with using arsenic to kill children, their husbands and brothers. Using newspapers, archival sources (including petitions and witness depositions), and records from parliamentary debates, the focus is not on whether the women were guilty or innocent, but rather on what English society during this period made of their trials and what stereotypes and stock-stories were used to describe women who used arsenic to kill. All three women were initially presented as 'bad' women but as the book illustrates there was no clear consensus on what exactly constituted bad womanhood.
Women Serial Killers Of The 19th Century
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Author : Sylvia Perrini
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2013-03-05
Women Serial Killers Of The 19th Century written by Sylvia Perrini and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
THE GOLDEN AGE OF POISONING The 19th Century is frequently regarded as the heyday of the poisoner. In the beginning to the middle of the nineteenth century, a poisoning panic engrossed the public imagination. In the Times newspaper in England, between 1830 and 1839, fifty-nine cases of murder by poisoning were reported. By the 1840s, the number reported had risen to hundreds. And, of these hundreds of poisonings, sixty percent involved women murderers. In this fascinating book, best selling author Sylvia Perrini, looks at serial women killers around the world in the 19th Century. Nearly all the cases, but not all, involve poisoning. This book contains profiles of women mentioned in Women Serial Killers of the 19th Century Vol 1 and Women Serial killers of the 19th Century Vol 2. Both available as kindle books on Amazon.
Women In Medicine In Nineteenth Century American Literature
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Author : Sara L. Crosby
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-09-14
Women In Medicine In Nineteenth Century American Literature written by Sara L. Crosby and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book investigates how popular American literature and film transformed the poisonous woman from a misogynist figure used to exclude women and minorities from political power into a feminist hero used to justify the expansion of their public roles. Sara Crosby locates the origins of this metamorphosis in Uncle Tom’s Cabin where Harriet Beecher Stowe applied an alternative medical discourse to revise the poisonous Cassy into a doctor. The newly “medicalized” poisoner then served as a focal point for two competing narratives that envisioned the American nation as a multi-racial, egalitarian democracy or as a white and male supremacist ethno-state. Crosby tracks this battle from the heroic healers created by Stowe, Mary Webb, Oscar Micheaux, and Louisia May Alcott to the even more monstrous poisoners or “vampires” imagined by E. D. E. N. Southworth, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Theda Bara, Thomas Dixon, Jr., and D. W. Griffith.
The Exotic Woman In Nineteenth Century British Fiction And Culture
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Author : Piya Pal-Lapinski
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2005
The Exotic Woman In Nineteenth Century British Fiction And Culture written by Piya Pal-Lapinski and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Body, Human, in literature categories.
A fresh and provocative approach to representations of exotic women in Victorian Britain.
Poisonous Muse
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Author : Sara L. Crosby
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2016-04-15
Poisonous Muse written by Sara L. Crosby and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
According to Sara Crosby, the new popular ‘power of horror’—in writings by Poe and many others—gave American authors a new way of moving beyond beauty through the ‘poisonous muse.’ This new power corresponds to the vitalizing changes in Jacksonian America and brings with it a major change in US literary history. Her study of these changes in the US cultural scene is an incredibly engaging, vibrant narrative.
Beyond Deviant Damsels
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Author : Anne-Marie Kilday
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023-02-24
Beyond Deviant Damsels written by Anne-Marie Kilday and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-24 with History categories.
Using detailed case studies, Beyond Deviant Damsels undermines many of the conventional assumptions about how women committed crime in the nineteenth century. Previous historical accounts generally constructed gendered stereotypes of women acting in self-defence, being lesser accomplices to male criminals, committing crimes that require little or no physical effort, or pursuing supposedly 'female' goals (such as material acquisition). This study counters these gendered assumptions by examining instances where women tested society's boundaries through their own actions, ultimately presenting women as far more like men in their capacity and execution of criminal behaviour. The book shows examples where women acted far beyond these stereotypes, and showcases the existence of cultural discussion of open-ended female misbehaviour in Victorian Britain - leading us to question the very role of stereotyping in the history of criminality. These individual challenges to a supposed gendered status quo in Victorian Britain did not produce spontaneous outrage, nor were attempts at controlling and eradicating such behaviour coherent or successful. As such Victorian society's treatment of women emerges as uncertain and confused as much as it was determinedly moralistic. From this, Beyond Deviant Damsels seeks to re-evaluate our twenty-first-century perception of female criminals, by indicating that historiography may have been responsible for limiting the picture of Victorian female criminality and behaviour from that time until the present.
Female Serial Killers
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Author : Peter Vronsky
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2007-08-07
Female Serial Killers written by Peter Vronsky and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-07 with True Crime categories.
In this fascinating book, Peter Vronsky exposes and investigates the phenomenon of women who kill—and the political, economic, social and sexual implications buried with each victim. How many of us are even remotely prepared to imagine our mothers, daughters, sisters or grandmothers as fiendish killers? For centuries we have been conditioned to think of serial murderers and psychopathic predators as men—with women registering low on our paranoia radar. Perhaps that’s why so many trusting husbands, lovers, family friends, and children have fallen prey to “the female monster.” From history’s earliest recorded cases of homicidal females to Irma Grese, the Nazi Beast of Belsen, from Britain’s notorious child-slayer Myra Hindley to ‘Honeymoon Killer’ Martha Beck to the sensational cult of Aileen Wournos—the first female serial killer-as-celebrity—to cult killers, homicidal missionaries, and our pop-culture fascination with the sexy femme fatale, Vronsky not only challenges our ordinary standards of good and evil but also defies our basic accepted perceptions of gender role and identity. INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS
Warwickshires Murderous Women
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Author : Nick Billingham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-04
Warwickshires Murderous Women written by Nick Billingham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04 with Murder categories.
The female criminals of nineteenth-century Warwickshire were far from the delicate gentle sex of popular belief. Gangs of prostitutes lured men into the back alleys of Birmingham to rob them with such extreme violence that the city reeled with shock. Psychotic servants suddenly turned on their unwitting employers with stunning savagery. It was an era when domestic tranquillity could be silently stifled with a well-placed dose of arsenic. Sheer greed drove one woman to fake her mother-in-law's suicide. She had already buried two husbands. Another lady finally snapped after years of abuse, seeking revenge for being sold into prostitution as a child. Utter selfishness made other women find devious ways to rid themselves of inconvenient children, with poverty and alcohol the backdrop of such crimes. In a world that seems so antique, we still have so much in common: thwarted love affairs, chillingly callous abuse of the weak and sick, exploitation and violence. A few Victorian women were just as wicked as the men. In a male dominated world many women walked free from court, the judge and jury unable to believe that they could be anything other than their stereotype. First account in one volume of the 'ladykillers' of Warwickshire Concentrates on Victorian Period Experienced True Crime writer based in the county Explodes myth of the 'gentler sex' Descriptions, motives and ultimate fates of many forgotten cases AUTHOR Nick Billingham lives in Stratford-upon-Avon but has roots in Birmingham and the Black Country. A canal as well as a True Crime enthusiast, Nick's first four books relate to English waterways and their boats. Nick is a regular contributor to Wharncliffe's Foul Deeds series, with titles on Stratford and South Warwickshire and Birmingham (two volumes).
Agatha Christie And The Guilty Pleasure Of Poison
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Author : Sylvia A. Pamboukian
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-11-12
Agatha Christie And The Guilty Pleasure Of Poison written by Sylvia A. Pamboukian and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
Agatha Christie and the Guilty Pleasure of Poison examines Christie’s female poisoners in the context of Christie’s own experience in pharmacy and of detective fiction. In doing so, it uncovers an overlooked dynamic in which female poisoners deliver well-deserved comeuppance for gendered and classed wrongdoing ordinarily accepted in everyday life. While critics have long recognized male outlaws, like Robin Hood, who use crime to oppose a corrupt system, this book contends that female outlaws – witches and poisoners – offer a similar heritage of empowered femininity. Far from cozy and formulaic, Agatha Christie’s outlaw poisoners offer readers the surprising pleasures of comeuppance, and they set the stage for contemporary detective fiction writers, more recent films depicting poisoning as empowering, and even poison gardens, which are tourist destinations that offer visitors the guilty pleasure of poison.
Poisoned Lives
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Author : Katherine D. Watson
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2006-08-23
Poisoned Lives written by Katherine D. Watson and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-23 with History categories.
Here is a valuable, and fascinating, piece of social history. Watson sheds new light on a macabre yet frequently misunderstood subject.