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Nineteenth-Century Female Poisoners
Language: en
Pages: 214
Authors: V. Nagy
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-02-18 - Publisher: Springer

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Nineteenth-Century Female Poisoners investigates the Essex poisoning trials of 1846 to 1851 where three women were charged with using arsenic to kill children,
Nineteenth-Century Female Poisoners
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: V. Nagy
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-02-18 - Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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Nineteenth-Century Female Poisoners investigates the Essex poisoning trials of 1846 to 1851 where three women were charged with using arsenic to kill children,
Poisonous Muse
Language: en
Pages: 236
Authors: Sara L. Crosby
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-15 - Publisher: University of Iowa Press

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According to Sara Crosby, the new popular ‘power of horror’—in writings by Poe and many others—gave American authors a new way of moving beyond beauty t
Women in Medicine in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Language: en
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Authors: Sara L. Crosby
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-09-14 - Publisher: Springer

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This book investigates how popular American literature and film transformed the poisonous woman from a misogynist figure used to exclude women and minorities fr
The Secret Poisoner
Language: en
Pages: 446
Authors: Linda Stratmann
Categories: True Crime
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-22 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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“This fine social history charts the changing patterns of using poison” and the forensic methods developed to detect it in the Victorian Era (The Guardian,