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Poison Panic: Arsenic Deaths in 1840s Essex

Helen Barrell

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Description:For a few years in the 1840s, Essex was notorious in the minds of Victorians as a place where women stalked the winding country lanes looking for their next victim to poison with arsenic. It s a terrible image and also one that doesn t seem to have much basis in truth but this was a time of great anxiety. The 1840s were also known as the hungry 40s, when crop failures pushed up food prices and there was popular unrest across Europe. The decade culminated in a cholera epidemic in which tens of thousands of people in the British Isles died. It is perhaps no surprise that people living through that troubled decade were captivated by the stories of the poisoners: that death was down to white powder and the evil intentions of the human heart. Sarah Chesham, Mary May and Hannah Southgate are the protagonists of this tale of how rural Essex, in a country saturated with arsenic, was touched by the tumultuous 1840s."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Poison Panic: Arsenic Deaths in 1840s Essex. To get started finding Poison Panic: Arsenic Deaths in 1840s Essex, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 224

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd.

Release: 2016

ISBN: 1473852072

Description: For a few years in the 1840s, Essex was notorious in the minds of Victorians as a place where women stalked the winding country lanes looking for their next victim to poison with arsenic. It s a terrible image and also one that doesn t seem to have much basis in truth but this was a time of great anxiety. The 1840s were also known as the hungry 40s, when crop failures pushed up food prices and there was popular unrest across Europe. The decade culminated in a cholera epidemic in which tens of thousands of people in the British Isles died. It is perhaps no surprise that people living through that troubled decade were captivated by the stories of the poisoners: that death was down to white powder and the evil intentions of the human heart. Sarah Chesham, Mary May and Hannah Southgate are the protagonists of this tale of how rural Essex, in a country saturated with arsenic, was touched by the tumultuous 1840s."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Poison Panic: Arsenic Deaths in 1840s Essex. To get started finding Poison Panic: Arsenic Deaths in 1840s Essex, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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