The Female Poisoner and the Framing of Popular Authorship in Jacksonian America
by
Sara L. Crosby
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The nineteenth century was, we have been told, the “century of the poisoner,” when Britain and the United States trembled under an onslaught of unruly women who poisoned husbands with gleeful abandon. That story, however, is only half true. While British authorities did indeed round up and execute...