Criminal women
Subtitle: famous London cases
By: John J. Eddleston
Series: True crime; True crime (Wharncliffe Books)
Publisher: Wharncliffe Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Barnsley
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781844683284; 9781845631116
Subjects: Female offenders; History; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Criminology
Description: Women have sometimes been seen as less criminally inclined than men. But, as John Eddleston shows in this revealing anthology of female crimes in London, this image is hard to mesh with reality, for the city's history is crowded with cases of women who broke the law. In vivid detail he reconstructs a series of dramatic, often harrowing cases in which women were involved and puts their acts in the context of their times. Taking episodes from the eighteenth century to near the present day, he looks at criminal women of all types, from all walks of life. The work of the London police, the courts and the prisons is an essential element in his study, and each chapter reveals much about how attitudes to crime and punishment have changed over the centuries.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Catherine Hayes, 1726; title: Catherine Conway, Elizabeth Banks and Margaret Harvey, 1750; title: Elizabeth Brownrigg, 1767; title: Charlotte Gardiner and Mary Roberts, 1780; title: Charlotte Goodall, 1782; title: Elizabeth Taylor, 1785; title: Elizabeth Watson, 1787; title: Mary Finlayson, 1795; title: Anne Hurle, 1804; title: Sarah Puryer, 1810; title: Charlotte Newman, 1817; title: Ann Mary Chapman, 1829; title: Martha Browning, 1846; title: Maria Manning, 1849; title: Ann Merritt, 1850; title: Catherine Wilson, 1862; title: Florence Bravo, 1876; title: Caroline Perry, 1884; title: Mary Eleanor Wheeler (Pearcey), 1890; title: Ann Sarah Hibberd, 1894; title: Amelia Sach and Annie Walters, 1903; title: Clara Alice White, 1912; title: Marie Marguerite Alibert Fahmy, 1923; title: Styllou Pantopiou Christofi, 1954; title: Ruth Ellis, 1955; title: Appendix: Female executions in London, 1800-1955.