Tag: Helen Barrell

• Poison Panic: Arsenic Deaths in 1840s Essex

  Helen Barrell examines the lives of three apparently ordinary women: Sarah Chesham, Hannah Southgate, and Mary May. 1840s Essex became notorious as a place where women stalked the lanes looking for their next victim to poison with arsenic, though much of the reported horror remains unfounded.

  Death and the Maiden

  31/10/2016

  Book Club, Guest Post

  Arsenic, Burial, Crime, Deadmaidens, Death, Essex, Helen Barrell, History, Investigation, Law, Lethal, Murder, Poison, Press, Punishment, Scandal, Trials, Victorian, Writer