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Nineteenth-Century Female Poisoners
Victoria M. Nagy
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Description for Nineteenth-Century Female Poisoners
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HBJD1; HBL; HBTB; JKV; JKVP; JMK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
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
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349471485
SKU
V9781349471485
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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.
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