When Beauty Was Poisonous: Arsenic in the Victorian Home
Arsenic is well known in classic murder mysteries. Yet in Victorian life, its presence was often far more ordinary, quietly…
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“You Wouldn’t Hang a Stunner”: Rossetti and the Madeleine Smith Murder Trial
Key Takeaways Madeleine Smith stood trial in 1857 for the murder of her former lover, Pierre Emile L’Angelier, becoming a…
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