Mother and Murderer: the Sad True Tale of Rebecca Smith - Couverture souple

Hendry, Sally

 
9781914407345: Mother and Murderer: the Sad True Tale of Rebecca Smith
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1914407342 ISBN 13 : 9781914407345
Editeur : Hobnob Press, 2022

Synopsis

Rebecca Smith, from Bratton near Westbury in Wiltshire, southern England, was the last woman in Britain to be hanged for infanticide of her own baby. She suffered her punishment at Devizes. But this unassuming woman who attended chapel and prayed night and morning, had poisoned not just one but eight of her babies. Her crime shocked and puzzled Victorian Britain. So why did she do it? Historian and journalist Sally Hendry delves into the nineteenth century to unpick Rebecca's story, looking at everything from domestic violence through to the unspeakable agonies of death by arsenic poisoning. Victim or villain? You decide.

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Éditeur
Hobnob Press
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1914407342
ISBN 13 
9781914407345
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
118
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Personne responsable
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