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Rex v Edith Thompson

- A Tale of Two Murders
Af: Laura Thompson Engelsk Paperback

Rex v Edith Thompson

- A Tale of Two Murders
Af: Laura Thompson Engelsk Paperback
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''Another dark parable of society''s vilification of women. Intelligent... A tantalizing investigation'' Kate Colquhoun.

On the night of 3 October 1922, in the quiet suburb of Ilford, Edith Thompson and her husband Percy were walking home after an evening spent at a London theatre, when a man sprang out of the darkness and stabbed Percy to death. The assailant was Frederick Bywaters, a twenty-year-old merchant seaman who had been Edith''s lover. When the police learned of his relationship with Edith, she was arrested as his accomplice, despite protesting her innocence. The remarkably intense love letters Edith wrote to Freddy – some of them couched in ambiguous language – were read out at their trial for murder at the Old Bailey. They would seal her fate: Edith and Freddy were hanged for the murder of Percy Thompson in January 1923. Freddy was demonstrably guilty; but was Edith truly so?

In shattering detail and with masterful emotional insight, Laura Thompson charts the course of a liaison with thrice-fatal consequences, and investigates what the trial and execution of Edith Thompson tell us about perceptions of women in early twentieth-century Britain.

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''Another dark parable of society''s vilification of women. Intelligent... A tantalizing investigation'' Kate Colquhoun.

On the night of 3 October 1922, in the quiet suburb of Ilford, Edith Thompson and her husband Percy were walking home after an evening spent at a London theatre, when a man sprang out of the darkness and stabbed Percy to death. The assailant was Frederick Bywaters, a twenty-year-old merchant seaman who had been Edith''s lover. When the police learned of his relationship with Edith, she was arrested as his accomplice, despite protesting her innocence. The remarkably intense love letters Edith wrote to Freddy – some of them couched in ambiguous language – were read out at their trial for murder at the Old Bailey. They would seal her fate: Edith and Freddy were hanged for the murder of Percy Thompson in January 1923. Freddy was demonstrably guilty; but was Edith truly so?

In shattering detail and with masterful emotional insight, Laura Thompson charts the course of a liaison with thrice-fatal consequences, and investigates what the trial and execution of Edith Thompson tell us about perceptions of women in early twentieth-century Britain.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 448
ISBN-13: 9781784082468
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1784082465
Kategori: True Crime fortællinger
Udg. Dato: 4 okt 2018
Længde: 29mm
Bredde: 132mm
Højde: 193mm
Forlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Oplagsdato: 4 okt 2018
Forfatter(e): Laura Thompson
Forfatter(e) Laura Thompson

Kategori True Crime fortællinger

ISBN-13 9781784082468

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 448

Udgave

Længde 29mm

Bredde 132mm

Højde 193mm

Udg. Dato 4 okt 2018

Oplagsdato 4 okt 2018

Forlag Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

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