Misjudged Murderesses: Female Injustice in Victorian Britain

by Stephen Jakobi

Lacing tea with poison and slipping arsenic in to soup, this is what comes to mind we talk of murderesses of the Victorian age. Fuelled by a rumor-driven press and cases of notorious killers like Marry Ann Cotton, the 'Angel of Death', or Christiana Edmunds, the 'Chocolate Cream Killer', death by poisoning was a great anxiety of Victorian Britain.

But what about those women who were wrongly convicted? What about the suspects who fell victim...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526741628
• ISBN13: 9781526741622
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Pen and Sword History
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"