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Women and the Gallows
“Is she or isn’t she?” How an age-old plea of pregnancy saved women from execution
Q&A on Women and the Gallows 1797-1837: Unfortunate Wretches
Desperate Measures: Women on Trial for Infanticide in the Early 19th Century
5 husband murderers: a guest blog for Mike Rendell
The last days of Mary Ann Burdock
Eliza Ross: The Forgotten Female Burker
Hannah Palmer: Executed with her brother for the murder of his wife (1801)
Horace Cotton: The extraordinary Ordinary of Newgate
Three women hanged for poisoning their husbands in 1836: Sophia Edney
Three women hanged for poisoning their husbands in 1836: Betty Rowland
Three women hanged for poisoning their husbands in 1836: Harriet Tarver
A broadside on Elizabeth Simmonds, who had a lucky escape from the dissecting table
The bloody career of Maria Theresa Phipoe
The confession of Mary Voce, who inspired George Eliot
Gangs of Market Drayton: Ann Harris
Condemned to death: Charlotte Newman and Mary Ann James
The end of Frances Thompson, a dealer in false banknotes
Susannah Holroyd: Serial killer
Ann Hurle’s story: The execution of ‘a young woman of education’
The birth of the pound note and the fate of Sarah Bailey
The hazards of hiring: Melinda Mapson
‘Frenzied despair’: Sarah Pugh murders her daughter
Ann Mead: The life and death of a nursemaid
Pregnant and condemned: Pleading the belly and the jury of matrons
William Hone on the case against Elizabeth Miller, who mistook arsenic for oatmeal
The Norfolk Murders: Catherine Frarey and Frances Billing
The Norfolk murders: Mary Wright
The one that got away: Sarah Chandler escapes the gallows
1805: Mary Morgan: ‘A Provincial Tragedy’
47 cases of infanticide at the Old Bailey
The death of Frances Colpitts
The cost of executing Jane Jameson
Eliza Fenning: innocent but proven guilty