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Rex v Edith Thompson - A Tale of Two Murders (Hardcover)
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Rex v Edith Thompson - A Tale of Two Murders (Hardcover)
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'Another dark parable of society's vilification of women.
Intelligent ... A tantalizing investigation' Kate Colquhoun. On the
night of 3 October 1922, in the quiet suburb of Ilford, Edith
Thompson and her husband Percy were walking home after an evening
spent at a London theatre, when a man sprang out of the darkness
and stabbed Percy to death. The assailant was Frederick Bywaters, a
twenty-year-old merchant seaman who had been Edith's lover. When
the police learned of his relationship with Edith, she was arrested
as his accomplice, despite protesting her innocence. The remarkably
intense love letters Edith wrote to Freddy - some of them couched
in ambiguous language - were read out at their trial for murder at
the Old Bailey. They would seal her fate: Edith and Freddy were
hanged for the murder of Percy Thompson in January 1923. Freddy was
demonstrably guilty; but was Edith truly so? In shattering detail
and with masterful emotional insight, Laura Thompson charts the
course of a liaison with thrice-fatal consequences, and
investigates what the trial and execution of Edith Thompson tell us
about perceptions of women in early twentieth-century Britain.
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