By Stephen Wade
ISBN-10: 1783408588
ISBN-13: 9781783408580
The felony background of Yorkshire has its percentage of nasty and brutal murders and the vast majority of those killers were males. information express that almost all homicides are males. however the files over the centuries have stories of girls killers and in those stories the murders are frequently instances of poisoning. Stephen Wade has investigated files around the nation to determine tales of ladies within the years among the center of the eighteenth century and the mid 20th century who've taken lives via jealousy, hatred or sheer desperation. a number of the stories are unhappy, depression money owed of infanticide devoted in demanding instances usually while ladies have been less than bad rigidity and being affected by negative healthiness and psychological difficulties. different tales are approximately murders that took away an undesirable associate or introduced a few effortless cash to the killer's pockets.Beneath the homicide tales there are stories of court docket trials that went fallacious and fake accusations, in addition to verdicts that despatched girls to Van Dieman's...
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History shows us that there is nothing new in this. Some of the most notorious cases of women being tried for wilful murder in English history involve moral beliefs and ideologies of power that are impossible to accept today. Something profound in the human mind and in the sense of moral community feels an extraordinary revulsion at the thought of a woman taking a life. Until 1827, a woman who took the life of her husband was committing, not murder, but petty treason. Until 1790, this earned a punishment of burning at the stake rather than hanging.
She seemed earnest in supplicating mercy for her sins and invoking the divine favour on her unfortunate children and relatives . . (The Times, 9 August 1825) Hannah Read had a very different experience from that of the average male murderer. Her crime was also a more extreme form of sin and a more outrageous offence against the social and religious hierarchy on earth. But many of the stories in this book come from the period when the majority of killings by women were those of infanticide. The press reports of the alarmingly common cases of attempted suicide and infanticide are desperately sad, as in this typical one from 1850: Mary Hardwick, a miserable — looking creature, was indicted for attempting to murder her child.
In the Victorian period, this kind of tragic attempt at suicide was counterbalanced in the unsound morality of the time with the case of affiliation. That is, attempts to kill the children of immoral unions in order to avoid being a ‘fallen woman’ were rife; but what about the male transgressors? A case from Dewsbury in 1850 shows this, as here a man of the cloth, Reverend Stephen Matthews, was in the dock. This vicar of Hanging Heaton stood accused of being the father of an illegitimate child born to Mary Hellewell (sixteen-years-old).