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Nineteenth-century female poisoners : three English women who used arsenic to kill / Victoria M. Nagy.

Title
Nineteenth-century female poisoners : three English women who used arsenic to kill / Victoria M. Nagy.
Author
Nagy, Victoria M., 1983-
Publication
  • New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
  • ©2015

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x, 224 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
"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"--
Alternative Title
19th century female poisoners
Subject
  • 1800 - 1899
  • Women poisoners > Great Britain > Case studies
  • Murder > Great Britain > History > 19th century
  • HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain
  • HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century
  • HISTORY / Social History
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying
  • TRUE CRIME / Murder / General
  • Murder
  • Women poisoners
  • Great Britain
Genre/Form
  • Case studies
  • History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 200-213) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- Chapter 1. Crime in nineteenth-century England: decline, causes and concerns -- Chapter 2. Broadening the scope: moving beyond simple sources -- Chapter 3. Poisoning crimes in the United Kingdom: 1839-51 -- Chapter 4. The archetypical poisoning woman: the cases of Sarah Chesham -- Chapter 5. Death clubs, secret poisonings and an execution: the case of Mary May -- Chapter 6. Fallen woman or bad witnesses? The case of Hannah Southgate -- Conclusion.
ISBN
  • 9781137359292 (hardback)
  • 1137359293 (hardback)
LCCN
^^2014025299
OCLC
  • 881655953
  • SCSB-11336104
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library