Margery Lovett

Margery Lovett was a London baker who ran a pie shop in Bell Yard. She was a lover and accomplice of the serial killer Sweeney Todd.
In Victorian era penny dreadfuls, Lovett fulfilled the European archetype of a witch who cooks human flesh. By all accounts, her pies were the most delicious in London.
In the Eleven-Day Empire's Feast of Fools, Lovett was portrayed by a Mother of the Ritual Wing during the L'Amoureux ritual. The parade passed through Sweeney Todd's barbershop to the catacombs under St Dunstan's Church and out through Lovett's pie shop. (PROSE: )
== Behind the scenes ==
Margery Lovett is a character who appears in various adaptations of the story of , under various first names.
She has been portrayed on stage and screen by Sheila Hancock, Julia McKenzie, Joanna Lumley, Helena Bonham Carter, and Imelda Staunton.
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