Between 1844 and 1868, three women were tried and found guilty of
the brutal murder of members of their family by poison at the
Lincoln Assizes. Two of them, Eliza Joyce and Priscilla Biggadike,
were hanged; the third, Mary Ann Milner, committed suicide in her
cell, hours before she was due to be executed. Drawing upon archive
sources and the many divergent accounts in the popular press at the
time, Attired in Deepest Mourning is the first comprehensive study
of all three cases. It analyses in forensic detail the information,
misinformation and fake news which defined the lives and deaths of
three Lincolnshire women, both at the time, and subsequently. In
addition, it presents hitherto unpublished material which takes the
reader beyond the hackneyed narrative of the monstrous female
poisoner to a more sympathetic understanding of the pressures and
circumstances in which the women lived and died. Attired in Deepest
Mourning is a local study which provides a valuable contribution to
a full understanding of crime and punishment in mid-Victorian
Britain.
General
| Imprint: |
Matador
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
September 2022 |
| Authors: |
Malcolm Moyes
|
| Dimensions: |
198 x 129 x 28mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
296 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-80313-323-2 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
True stories >
Crime
|
| LSN: |
1-80313-323-6 |
| Barcode: |
9781803133232 |
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