Women and the Gallows review: Ripperologist

Published in The Ripperologist, Vol 160.

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“Is she or isn’t she?” How an age-old plea of pregnancy saved women from execution

Women and the Gallows review: Ripperologist

Beatrice Parvin on Women and the Gallows

My guest blog for Geri Walton: Women on trial for infanticide

Basic Instincts: The art of Joseph Highmore at the Foundling Museum

1814: Murder or manslaughter? The trial of Mary Ann Adlam

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

The bloody career of Maria Theresa Phipoe

The confession of Mary Voce, who inspired George Eliot

Gangs of Market Drayton: Ann Harris (1828)

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, Part 2: Catherine Frarey and Frances Billing

The Norfolk Murders, Part 1: Mary Wright

Sarah Chandler: The one that got away (1814)

Ann Baker, hanged for stealing sheep (1801)

Mary Thorpe: First woman to be executed in the 19th century

Mary Morgan: “A Provincial Tragedy” (1805)

1802: Maria Davis and Charlotte Bobbett, who dropped a baby on Brandon Hill, Bristol

Ann Heytrey: hanged at Warwick for murdering her mistress

Charlotte Long, hanged in 1833, for setting fire to haystacks

Hannah Palmer: Executed with her brother for the murder of his wife (1801)

Mother of 8 Ann Woodman, condemned to death for uttering forged banknotes

Harriet Skelton’s letter to the Bank of England

“A Warning to Thousands”: Sarah Lloyd

Harriet Skelton – “Chosen for death”

Child-stripping and child stealing in the Regency

47 cases of infanticide at the Old Bailey

The death of Frances Colpitts – Part 2

The death of Frances Colpitts

1829: The cost of executing Jane Jameson

Eliza Fenning: Guest post at All Things Georgian

1807: The execution of Holloway and Haggerty: tragedy upon tragedy