Women And The Gallows 1797 1837
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Women And The Gallows 1797 1837
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Author : Naomi Clifford
language : en
Publisher: Pen & Sword History
Release Date : 2018-01-23
Women And The Gallows 1797 1837 written by Naomi Clifford and has been published by Pen & Sword History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-23 with Capital punishment categories.
"131 women were hanged in England and Wales between 1797 and 1837, executed for crimes including murder, baby-killing, theft, arson, sheep-stealing and passing forged bank notes. Most of them were extremely poor and living in desperate situations. Some were mentally ill. A few were innocent. And almost all are now forgotten, their voices unheard for generations. Mary Morgan – a teenager hanged as an example to others. Eliza Fenning – accused of adding arsenic to the dumplings. Mary Bateman – a ‘witch’ who duped her neighbours out of their savings. Harriet Skelton – hanged for passing counterfeit pound notes in spite of efforts by Elizabeth Fry and the Duke of Gloucester to save her. Naomi Clifford has unearthed the events that brought these ‘unfortunates’ to the gallows and has used contemporary newspaper accounts and documents to tell their stories"--
Women And The Gallows 1797 1837
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Author : Naomi Clifford
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2017-11-30
Women And The Gallows 1797 1837 written by Naomi Clifford and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-30 with True Crime categories.
This true crime history of Georgian England reveals the scandalous lives—and unceremonious deaths—of more than 100 women who faced execution. In the last four decades of the Georgian era, 131 women were sent to the gallows. Unlike most convicted felons, none of them were spared by an official reprieve. Historian Naomi Clifford examines the crimes these women committed and asks why their grim sentences were carried out. Women and the Gallows, 1797–1837 reveals the harsh and unequal treatment women could expect from the criminal justice system of the time. It also brings new insight into the lives and the events that led these women to their deaths. Clifford explores cases of infanticide among domestic servants, counterfeiting, husband poisoning, as well as the infamous Eliza Fenning case. This volume also includes a complete chronology of the executed women and their crimes.
Nineteenth Century Crime And Punishment
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Author : Victor Bailey
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-07-30
Nineteenth Century Crime And Punishment written by Victor Bailey and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-30 with History categories.
This four volume collection looks at the essential issues concerning crime and punishment in the long nineteenth-century. Through the presentation of primary source documents, it explores the development of a modern pattern of crime and a modern system of penal policy and practice, illustrating the shift from eighteenth century patterns of crime (including the clash between rural custom and law) and punishment (unsystematic, selective, public, and body-centred) to nineteenth century patterns of crime (urban, increasing, and a metaphor for social instability and moral decay, before a remarkable late-century crime decline) and punishment (reform-minded, soul-centred, penetrative, uniform and private in application). The first two volumes focus on crime itself and illustrate the role of the criminal courts, the rise and fall of crime, the causes of crime as understood by contemporary investigators, the police ways of ‘knowing the criminal,’ the role of ‘moral panics,’ and the definition of the ‘criminal classes’ and ‘habitual offenders’. The final two volumes explore means of punishment and look at the shift from public and bodily punishments to transportation, the rise of the penitentiary, the convict prison system, and the late-century decline in the prison population and loss of faith in the prison.
The Georgians
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Author : Penelope J. Corfield
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2022-02-08
The Georgians written by Penelope J. Corfield and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-08 with History categories.
A comprehensive history of the Georgians, comparing past views of these exciting, turbulent, and controversial times with our attitudes today The Georgian era is often seen as a time of innovations. It saw the end of monarchical absolutism, global exploration and settlements overseas, the world’s first industrial revolution, deep transformations in religious and cultural life, and Britain’s role in the international trade in enslaved Africans. But how were these changes perceived by people at the time? And how do their viewpoints compare with attitudes today? In this wide-ranging history, Penelope J. Corfield explores every aspect of Georgian life—politics and empire, culture and society, love and violence, religion and science, industry and towns. People’s responses at the time were often divided. Pessimists saw loss and decline, while optimists saw improvements and light. Out of such tensions came the Georgian culture of both experiment and resistance. Corfield emphasizes those elements of deep continuity that persisted even within major changes, and shows how new developments were challenged if their human consequences proved dire.
The Disapperance Of Maria Glenn
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Author : Naomi Clifford
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Release Date : 2016
The Disapperance Of Maria Glenn written by Naomi Clifford and has been published by Pen and Sword History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Abduction categories.
* Once a nationally-known scandal but not written about for nearly 150 years, now discovered by chance in the British Newspaper Archive * The themes of women's rights, forced marriage and teenagers' credibility have contemporary resonance * Features well-known Regency personalities Coleridge and Leigh Hunt * A poignant uncle-niece relationship i
The Murder Of Mary Ashford
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Author : Naomi Clifford
language : en
Publisher: Grub Street Publishers
Release Date : 2018-05-30
The Murder Of Mary Ashford written by Naomi Clifford and has been published by Grub Street Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-30 with True Crime categories.
Historical true crime comes to life with this fictionalized account of a nineteenth-century murder that changed the course of British legal history. England, 1817. In the small hours of May 27th, a young servant girl from the village of Erdington left a party in the company of a man with a bad reputation. A few hours later, Mary Ashford’s lifeless body was found drowned in a pond. Despite a seemingly solid alibi, Abraham Thornton is soon on trial for his life—only to be acquitted at the direction of the judge. Public opinion across the country is outraged, with everyone convinced that a murderer has evaded the gallows. In a last-ditch effort to find justice, Mary’s brother uses an archaic legal process to prosecute Thornton again, only to find himself confronted with an extraordinary challenge. In court, Thornton throws down a gauntlet and demands his legal right to trial by combat . . . and the outcome will alter the course of English legal history. A many-layered fictionalized account, The Murder of Mary Ashford examines the particulars of this famous case while exploring the birth of forensic investigation, the meaning of sexual consent, and the struggle of a modern state to emerge from its medieval heritage.
The Murder Of Mary Ashford
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Author : Naomi Clifford
language : en
Publisher: Pen & Sword History
Release Date : 2018
The Murder Of Mary Ashford written by Naomi Clifford and has been published by Pen & Sword History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Murder categories.
In the small hours of 27 May 1817, Mary Ashford, a young servant girl from the village of Erdington near Birmingham, left a party in the company of Abraham Thornton. A few hours later she was found drowned in a pool; an inquest established that she had been raped. Despite a seemingly solid alibi, Thornton, an uncouth young man with a bad reputation, was soon on trial for his life, but to the widespread consternation of everyone from the local gentry to the humblest labourer, he was acquitted at the direction of the judge. Public opinion across the country was outraged, convinced that a murderer had evaded the gallows. Then, in a last-ditch effort to find justice, Mary's brother used an archaic legal process to prosecute Thornton again, only find himself confronted with an extraordinary challenge. In court, Thornton threw down a gauntlet and demanded his legal right to trial by combat... The outcome altered the course of English legal history. In this many-layered account, Naomi Clifford looks at the key issue of whether Thornton was guilty but also explores themes including the birth of forensic investigation, the meaning of sexual consent and the struggle of a modern state to emerge from its medieval legal heritage.
Under Fire
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Author : Naomi Clifford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-09-07
Under Fire written by Naomi Clifford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-07 with categories.
A gripping eyewitness account of hidden impact of war on the home front during the London Blitz, based on the diaries of a woman ambulance driver. 28 inline illustrations 1 map
Veneno De Mujer
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Author : José de Cora
language : es
Publisher: EDHASA
Release Date : 2021-03-30
Veneno De Mujer written by José de Cora and has been published by EDHASA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-03-30 with True Crime categories.
Una envenenadora no es una asesina. En cierto sentido, es eso y mucho más. En su propia etimología, el veneno (venesmon) nos informa de que es un instrumento de Venus para alcanzar el amor. Pero lo venífico no siempre reporta sólo efectos benéficos, sino también la muerte. Ocurre como con los preparados de Helena, nacida de Zeus, unas veces son mortales, y otras, saludables. Desde la tradición de las Visha Kanyas de la India, la envenenadora se entiende como una asesina singular, cuyas notas características la separan del resto de criminales, aunque también compartan otras que son afines. Aun así, la mujer tóxica constituye una categoría aparte dentro del concepto de "asesina", y además no tiene parangón en el mundo masculino, de la misma forma que algunos homicidas varones no tienen su correspondiente reflejo entre las mujeres. Arsénico, opio, belladona o cicuta; viudas negras, antimaridos, tóxicas precoces, celosas... Ellas matan. El veneno mata. Y la muerte tiene muchas caras. Así, en Veneno de mujer, José de Cora y Óscar Soriano, en un avezado y documentado rastreo tan científico como periodístico nos relatan los casos más importantes de envenenadoras múltiples, asesinas en serie disfrazadas de amantes esposas, enfermeras caritativas o cariñosas niñeras. Porque la muerte tiene muchas caras, pero el rostro del veneno, si bien oculto, siempre deja un rastro. Incluye una lista de venenos y sus efectos.
British Drama Of The Industrial Revolution
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Author : Frederick Burwick
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-07-28
British Drama Of The Industrial Revolution written by Frederick Burwick and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-28 with Drama categories.
Frederick Burwick reveals how the most volatile developments in British drama from the 1790s to 1830s took place in the industrial provinces.