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

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