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Nineteenth-Century Female Poisoners: Three English Women Who Used Arsenic to Kill
Victoria M. Nagy
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Description for Nineteenth-Century Female Poisoners: Three English Women Who Used Arsenic to Kill
Hardcover. Social and legal representations of female poisoners during the mid-nineteenth century in England, and the social and moral panics about women's access to arsenic. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; BTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 146 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
Nineteenth-Century Female Poisoners investigates the Essex poisoning trials of 1846 to 1851 where three women were charged with using arsenic to kill children, their husbands and brothers. Using newspapers, archival sources (including petitions and witness depositions), and records from parliamentary debates, the focus is not on whether the women were guilty or innocent, but rather on what English society during this period made of their trials and what stereotypes and stock-stories were used to describe women who used arsenic to kill. All three women were initially presented as 'bad' women but as the book illustrates there was no clear consensus ... Read more
Nineteenth-Century Female Poisoners investigates the Essex poisoning trials of 1846 to 1851 where three women were charged with using arsenic to kill children, their husbands and brothers. Using newspapers, archival sources (including petitions and witness depositions), and records from parliamentary debates, the focus is not on whether the women were guilty or innocent, but rather on what English society during this period made of their trials and what stereotypes and stock-stories were used to describe women who used arsenic to kill. All three women were initially presented as 'bad' women but as the book illustrates there was no clear consensus ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137359292
SKU
V9781137359292
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Ref
99-15
About Victoria M. Nagy
Victoria M. Nagy received her PhD from the Centre for Women's Studies and Gender Research, Monash University, Australia. Prior to this she was lecturer at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.
Reviews for Nineteenth-Century Female Poisoners: Three English Women Who Used Arsenic to Kill
'Nineteenth Century Female Poisoners: Three English Women Who Used Arsenic to Kill is an eye-catching title that makes me hope for a salacious but informative read.' - Yvonne Jewkes, University of Leicester, UK