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Victorian Britain feared many things, but few frightened it more than the woman with access to the kitchen, the medicine bottle, and the sickroom.
The Lady Poisoners is a chilling work of historical true crime exploring the women accused, convicted, suspected, and mythologised as domestic poisoners in nineteenth century Britain. At the heart of the book lies arsenic, the quiet white powder that moved through Victorian homes in fly papers, rat poison, pigments, medicines, and household products. Cheap, available, and difficult to detect before modern forensic science, arsenic became the substance around which some of the age's darkest fears gathered.
This book examines the world that made the Victorian poison panic possible. It enters the sickroom, where wives and mothers were expected to nurse the dying with tenderness. It follows the rise of burial insurance and friendly societies, where small policies could mean the difference between a respectable funeral and a pauper's grave. It explores chemists' counters, coroner's inquests, newspaper scandals, expert witnesses, courtroom spectacle, and the uneasy birth of forensic toxicology.
Inside are the famous and troubling cases of Mary Ann Cotton, Madeleine Smith, Florence Maybrick, Adelaide Bartlett, and other lesser known women whose names surfaced in police reports, inquest records, and Victorian newspapers. Some were almost certainly guilty. Some may have been innocent. Some were trapped inside a justice system shaped by class prejudice, gender expectation, imperfect science, and public hunger for scandal.
This is not a sensational retelling of murder for entertainment. It is a dark, careful, and gripping study of Victorian fear, female suspicion, domestic power, poverty, poison, and the law.
Inside this book, readers will discover:
- The deadly role of arsenic in Victorian domestic life
- Why women became so strongly associated with poisoning
- How burial insurance created suspicion around working class families
- The evidence and uncertainty behind notorious poisoning trials
- How newspapers helped create the myth of the female poisoner
- The rise of forensic toxicology and courtroom science
- The social forces that turned wives, widows, nurses, and mothers into figures of public terror
The Lady Poisoners is perfect for readers of historical true crime, Victorian history, women's history, forensic history, dark domestic crime, and real cases that sit uneasily between evidence, myth, and moral panic.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Victorian Britain feared many things, but few frightened it more than the woman with access to the kitchen, the medicine bottle, and the sickroom.The Lady Poisoners is a chilling work of historical true crime exploring the women accused, convicted, suspected, and mythologised as domestic poisoners in nineteenth century Britain. At the heart of the book lies arsenic, the quiet white powder that moved through Victorian homes in fly papers, rat poison, pigments, medicines, and household products. Cheap, available, and difficult to detect before modern forensic science, arsenic became the substance around which some of the age's darkest fears gathered.This book examines the world that made the Victorian poison panic possible. It enters the sickroom, where wives and mothers were expected to nurse the dying with tenderness. It follows the rise of burial insurance and friendly societies, where small policies could mean the difference between a respectable funeral and a pauper's grave. It explores chemists' counters, coroner's inquests, newspaper scandals, expert witnesses, courtroom spectacle, and the uneasy birth of forensic toxicology.Inside are the famous and troubling cases of Mary Ann Cotton, Madeleine Smith, Florence Maybrick, Adelaide Bartlett, and other lesser known women whose names surfaced in police reports, inquest records, and Victorian newspapers. Some were almost certainly guilty. Some may have been innocent. Some were trapped inside a justice system shaped by class prejudice, gender expectation, imperfect science, and public hunger for scandal.This is not a sensational retelling of murder for entertainment. It is a dark, careful, and gripping study of Victorian fear, female suspicion, domestic power, poverty, poison, and the law.Inside this book, readers will discover: The deadly role of arsenic in Victorian domestic lifeWhy women became so strongly associated with poisoningHow burial insurance created suspicion around working class familiesThe evidence and uncertainty behind notorious poisoning trialsHow newspapers helped create the myth of the female poisonerThe rise of forensic toxicology and courtroom scienceThe social forces that turned wives, widows, nurses, and mothers into figures of public terrorThe Lady Poisoners is perfect for readers of historical true crime, Victorian history, women's history, forensic history, dark domestic crime, and real cases that sit uneasily between evidence, myth, and moral panic. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798224435180
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Victorian Britain feared many things, but few frightened it more than the woman with access to the kitchen, the medicine bottle, and the sickroom.The Lady Poisoners is a chilling work of historical true crime exploring the women accused, convicted, suspected, and mythologised as domestic poisoners in nineteenth century Britain. At the heart of the book lies arsenic, the quiet white powder that moved through Victorian homes in fly papers, rat poison, pigments, medicines, and household products. Cheap, available, and difficult to detect before modern forensic science, arsenic became the substance around which some of the age's darkest fears gathered.This book examines the world that made the Victorian poison panic possible. It enters the sickroom, where wives and mothers were expected to nurse the dying with tenderness. It follows the rise of burial insurance and friendly societies, where small policies could mean the difference between a respectable funeral and a pauper's grave. It explores chemists' counters, coroner's inquests, newspaper scandals, expert witnesses, courtroom spectacle, and the uneasy birth of forensic toxicology.Inside are the famous and troubling cases of Mary Ann Cotton, Madeleine Smith, Florence Maybrick, Adelaide Bartlett, and other lesser known women whose names surfaced in police reports, inquest records, and Victorian newspapers. Some were almost certainly guilty. Some may have been innocent. Some were trapped inside a justice system shaped by class prejudice, gender expectation, imperfect science, and public hunger for scandal.This is not a sensational retelling of murder for entertainment. It is a dark, careful, and gripping study of Victorian fear, female suspicion, domestic power, poverty, poison, and the law.Inside this book, readers will discover: The deadly role of arsenic in Victorian domestic lifeWhy women became so strongly associated with poisoningHow burial insurance created suspicion around working class familiesThe evidence and uncertainty behind notorious poisoning trialsHow newspapers helped create the myth of the female poisonerThe rise of forensic toxicology and courtroom scienceThe social forces that turned wives, widows, nurses, and mothers into figures of public terrorThe Lady Poisoners is perfect for readers of historical true crime, Victorian history, women's history, forensic history, dark domestic crime, and real cases that sit uneasily between evidence, myth, and moral panic. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798224435180
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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Victorian Britain feared many things, but few frightened it more than the woman with access to the kitchen, the medicine bottle, and the sickroom.The Lady Poisoners is a chilling work of historical true crime exploring the women accused, convicted, suspected, and mythologised as domestic poisoners in nineteenth century Britain. At the heart of the book lies arsenic, the quiet white powder that moved through Victorian homes in fly papers, rat poison, pigments, medicines, and household products. Cheap, available, and difficult to detect before modern forensic science, arsenic became the substance around which some of the age's darkest fears gathered.This book examines the world that made the Victorian poison panic possible. It enters the sickroom, where wives and mothers were expected to nurse the dying with tenderness. It follows the rise of burial insurance and friendly societies, where small policies could mean the difference between a respectable funeral and a pauper's grave. It explores chemists' counters, coroner's inquests, newspaper scandals, expert witnesses, courtroom spectacle, and the uneasy birth of forensic toxicology.Inside are the famous and troubling cases of Mary Ann Cotton, Madeleine Smith, Florence Maybrick, Adelaide Bartlett, and other lesser known women whose names surfaced in police reports, inquest records, and Victorian newspapers. Some were almost certainly guilty. Some may have been innocent. Some were trapped inside a justice system shaped by class prejudice, gender expectation, imperfect science, and public hunger for scandal.This is not a sensational retelling of murder for entertainment. It is a dark, careful, and gripping study of Victorian fear, female suspicion, domestic power, poverty, poison, and the law.Inside this book, readers will discover:The deadly role of arsenic in Victorian domestic lifeWhy women became so strongly associated with poisoningHow burial insurance created suspicion around working class familiesThe evidence and uncertainty behind notorious poisoning trialsHow newspapers helped create the myth of the female poisonerThe rise of forensic toxicology and courtroom scienceThe social forces that turned wives, widows, nurses, and mothers into figures of public terrorThe Lady Poisoners is perfect for readers of historical true crime, Victorian history, women's history, forensic history, dark domestic crime, and real cases that sit uneasily between evidence, myth, and moral panic. Seller Inventory # 9798224435180
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