Misjudged Murderesses: Female Injustice in Victorian Britain
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240pp. Indexed. 8vo. As new condition throughout. Sparsely illustrated. Stephen Jackobi takes a forensic approach to examining the lives and trials of eight women who were wrongly convicted and sentenced to death in Victorian England - including Marry Ann Cotton, known as the Angel of Death; Christina Edwards, the Chocolate Cream killer; Sarah Chesham, Mary Ball, Priscilla Biggadike, Ann Merritt, Sarah Barbar, and Lizzie Pearson.
