Nineteenth-Century Female Poisoners
Three English Women Who Used Arsenic to Kill
Authors: Nagy, V.
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- About this book
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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 on what exactly constituted bad womanhood.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-10
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Crime in Nineteenth-Century England: Decline, Causes and Concerns
Pages 11-32
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Broadening the Scope: Moving beyond Simple Sources
Pages 33-58
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Poisoning Crimes in the United Kingdom, 1839–51
Pages 59-76
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The Archetypical Poisoning Woman: The Cases of Sarah Chesham
Pages 77-113
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Nineteenth-Century Female Poisoners
- Book Subtitle
- Three English Women Who Used Arsenic to Kill
- Authors
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- V. Nagy
- Copyright
- 2015
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Copyright Holder
- Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-137-35930-8
- DOI
- 10.1057/9781137359308
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-137-35929-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-349-47148-5
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XI, 224
- Topics
