Looks lovely but hides a dark past
human interest
Social climbing: Regency boarding schools
My guest post at geriwalton.com
Charlotte Newman and Mary Ann James
Hanged in 1818 for forgery
The Disappearance of Maria Glenn – available now
£15.99 from the Pen & Sword website
The end of Frances Thompson, a dealer in false banknotes
Fake bobs, shans and scrieves did for her.
Susannah Holroyd: Serial killer
Or was she?
Ann Hurle’s story: The execution of “a young woman of education”
It’s a pity she didn’t use her talents for something else.
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
William Hone on the case against Elizabeth Miller, who mistook arsenic for oatmeal
Even the rat-catcher said it was an easy mistake to make.
The Norfolk Murders, Part 2: Catherine Frarey and Frances Billing
The last women to be hanged in Norfolk
The Norfolk Murders, Part 1: Mary Wright
Arsenic in the plum cakes.
Sarah Chandler: The one that got away (1814)
A daring escape from the gallows.
Ann Baker, hanged for stealing sheep (1801)
Why did she die when so many others received lighter sentences?
Mary Thorpe: First woman to be executed in the 19th century
Suffering from post-partum mental illness
Mary Morgan: “A Provincial Tragedy” (1805)
Why did George Hardinge condemn a 17-year-old servant to hang?
Elizabeth Canning, Princess Caraboo, Maria Glenn: liars and monsters
There are harsh penalties for females who transgress
1802: Maria Davis and Charlotte Bobbett, who dropped a baby on Brandon Hill, Bristol
They may not have intended his death.
Ann Heytrey: hanged at Warwick for murdering her mistress
She could give no explanation for why she did it.
3 books on the Georgian era I loved in 2015
Emma Hamilton, Sex and Dr Polidori
1816: The consequences of an attack on a Jew in Derby
The perpetrators were punished with transportation for life.
