TITLE:
Female executions : martyrs, murderesses and madwomen / Geoffrey Abbott.
Publication Date:
2013, 2003
Publication Information:
Chichester, U.K. : Summersdale,
Physical Description:
302 p. : ill.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-298) and index.
Summary:
From Nan Hereford, the cloaked highwayman who held up coaches with just her fists, to the woman who survived the gallows and took her empty coffin away with her, this book illuminates history's darker periods with a detailed and factual approach. Grimly funny and darkly gripping, interspersed with unusual last requests and black and white illustrations throughout, this is history at its most morbidly fascinating.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781849534932
