It’s a pity she didn’t use her talents for something else.
human interest
The birth of the pound note and the fate of Sarah Bailey
She was up against a powerful opponent.
The hazards of hiring: Melinda Mapson
Beware the perfidious servant.
‘Frenzied despair’: Sarah Pugh murders her daughter
The act of a woman facing the end
Ann Mead: The life and death of a nursemaid
She was young and angry.
Pregnant and condemned: Pleading the belly and the jury of matrons
1804: The fate of Ann Hurle, capitally convicted of fraud