Women killers of the early modern era

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Early modern Britain was gripped by tales of women who Who killed? But were these cases as common as they seemed? Or was something else at play? Speaking to Loring Good.

Historian Blessing Adams explores the obsession with female murderers in this period and considers what it tells us. about historical attitudes to gender, justice and power. We're talking about your book, Thou Savage Woman Female Killers in Early Modern Britain. Now you've written a book about murder in this period more generally, but what brought you to write this one focused on crimes committed by women in particular? Well, as I was researching my first book, I was reading through an awful lot of sort of like the true crime literature of the day. An awful lot of it. And something that was jumping out at me was just how much of it was disproportionately about female killers. Just reading this source, you'd think to yourself, was there an epidemic of female killers in this period? What was going on? There wasn't an epidemic of female killers. Women hardly ever killed. But there seemed to be a real obsession with the idea.

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