Catherine Curzon (aka Madame Gilflurt) pays a visit to tell us about the shocking attempt on the life of the Duke of Cumberland…
Crime
12 facts about prisons and punishment in the 18th century
Fascinating guest post by Anna M. Thane
A broadside on Elizabeth Simmonds, who had a lucky escape from the dissecting table
Or did she?
The bloody career of Maria Theresa Phipoe
The end of an extraordinary life of crime
The confession of Mary Voce, who inspired George Eliot
She became Hetty Sorrel in Adam Bede
Gangs of Market Drayton: Ann Harris (1828)
Looks lovely but hides a dark past
Charlotte Newman and Mary Ann James
Hanged in 1818 for forgery
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 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.
1816: The consequences of an attack on a Jew in Derby
The perpetrators were punished with transportation for life.
Two cases of child stealing
Both involved callous deception.
Charlotte Long, hanged in 1833, for setting fire to haystacks
A miscarriage of justice – in many ways.