Female Executions: Martyrs, Murderesses and Madwomen

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, True Crime, History
Cover of the book Female Executions: Martyrs, Murderesses and Madwomen by Geoffrey Abbott, Summersdale Publishers Ltd
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Author: Geoffrey Abbott ISBN: 9780857659880
Publisher: Summersdale Publishers Ltd Publication: August 5, 2013
Imprint: Summersdale Publishers Ltd Language: English
Author: Geoffrey Abbott
ISBN: 9780857659880
Publisher: Summersdale Publishers Ltd
Publication: August 5, 2013
Imprint: Summersdale Publishers Ltd
Language: English

The fairer sex get it in the neck in these grisly tales from the gallows, guillotine and gas chamber. You have been warned.

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, Female Executions 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.

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The fairer sex get it in the neck in these grisly tales from the gallows, guillotine and gas chamber. You have been warned.

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, Female Executions 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.

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