The Ripper of Waterloo Road: The Murder of Eliza Grimwood in 1838 by Jan Bondeson
Requirements: ePUB Reader, 22.5MB
Overview: Back in 2006, I purchased, through the medium of eBay, a handsomely leather-bound set of the New Newgate Calendar, a scarce ‘penny dreadful’ issued in weekly parts from October 1863 until March 1865.1 Its two volumes are full of lurid accounts of celebrated criminals, like the mariticidal Catherine Hayes who ended her days being burnt at the stake, William Corder who murdered Maria Marten in the Red Barn, the gamblers Thurtell and Hunt who murdered William Weare at Gill’s Hill Cottage, and Mother Brownrigg who tortured and killed her young apprentice girls. Each penny issue has a gory frontispiece depicting some unfortunate individual being stabbed, shot or disembowelled; women are ravished, flogged or thrown out of carriages, and the sadistic Mother Brownrigg advances on her helpless, half-naked victim, whip in hand.
Genre: Non-Fiction, True Crime
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