With only six weeks or so to publication date, here is your timely reminder to get your pre-orders in for Women and the Gallows, a unique look at the 131 ‘unfortunate wretches’ in En gland and Wales who were hanged for crimes as wide-ranging as stealing sheep, burning hayricks, fraud, infanticide and husband murder.
Most of these women 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.
Including
Mary Morgan – a teenager hanged as an example to others.
Mary Bateman – a ‘witch’ who duped her neighbours out of their savings and went on to murder.
Harriet Skelton – hanged for passing counterfeit pound notes in spite of efforts by Elizabeth Fry and the Duke of Gloucester to save her.
Eliza Ross – the last ‘burker’.
Charlotte Long – executed for setting fire to a hayrick.
Plus a unique chronology of all 131 women and their crimes.
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Introductory offer £15.99
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