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Women murderers in Victorian Britain.

Authors : Knelman, Judith

Subjects: WOMEN murderers; PRESS; VICTORIAN Period, Great Britain, 1837-1901UNITED Kingdom UNITED Kingdom UNITED Kingdom Report Available

Source: History Today. Aug98, Vol. 48 Issue 8, p9. 6p. 2 Color Photographs, 8 Black and White Photographs.

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Vengeful Daughter How Lizzie Borden got away with murder.

Authors : Booth, Robert

Subjects: BORDEN, Lizzie, 1860-1927; ACQUITTALS; SOCIAL historyFALL River (Mass.); MASSACHUSETTS MASSACHUSETTS MASSACHUSETTS Report Available

Source: American History. Feb2013, Vol. 47 Issue 6, p46-52. 7p.

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Belle Gunness' Poisonous Pen.

Authors : Hartzell, Ted

Subjects: GUNNESS, Belle; WOMEN murderers; LETTER writingLAPORTE (Ind.); INDIANA INDIANA INDIANA Report Available

Source: American History. Jun2008, Vol. 43 Issue 2, p46-51. 6p.

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Women Who Kill: An Analysis of Cases in Late Eighteenth. and Early Nineteenth-Century London.

Authors : CALLAHAN, KATHY

Subjects: WOMEN murderers; HISTORY of London, England; GREAT Britain. Central Criminal CourtUNITED Kingdom

Source: Journal of Social History. Summer2013, Vol. 46 Issue 4, p1013-1038. 26p.

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Female serial killers in the early modern age? Recurrent infanticide in Finland 1750-1896.

Authors : Rautelin, Mona (AUTHOR)

Subjects: INFANTICIDE; WOMEN murderers; SERIAL murderers

Source: History of the Family. Aug2013, Vol. 18 Issue 3, p349-370. 22p.

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The “Commonwealth of Virginia vs. Virginia Christian”: Southern Black Women, Crime & Punishment in Progressive Era Virginia.

Authors : Harris, Lashawn

Subjects: CHRISTIAN, Virginia, 1894 or 5-1912; AFRICAN American women -- History; WOMEN murderersVIRGINIA; UNITED States

Source: Journal of Social History. Summer2014, Vol. 47 Issue 4, p922-942. 21p.

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The Meanings of Mercy: Wife Assault and Spousal Murder in Post-Second World War Canada.

Authors : SANGSTER, JOAN

Subjects: MURDER trials; LEGAL status of abused wives; ABUSIVE menCANADA CANADA CANADA Report Available

Source: Canadian Historical Review. Dec2016, Vol. 97 Issue 4, p513-545. 33p.

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Narrative, Law and Emotion: Husband Killers in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland.

Authors : Barclay, Katie

Subjects: WOMEN murderers; NARRATIVES; CRIMES against husbandsIRELAND

Source: Journal of Legal History; Aug2017, Vol. 38 Issue 2, p203-227, 25p

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Changes in the gendered nature of homicides: Comparing 20th- and 21st-century Finland.

Authors : Virtanen, Suvi; Savinen, Herman

Subjects: HOMICIDE rates; GENDER differences (Psychology); WOMEN murderersFINLAND

Source: European Journal of Criminology; Jul2017, Vol. 14 Issue 4, p451-466, 16p

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‘Arsenic of the size of a pea’.

Authors : Nilsson, Roddy

Subjects: SWEDISH history; WOMEN murderers; POISONING

Source: Scandinavian Journal of History; Feb2015, Vol. 40 Issue 1, p97-118, 22p, 3 Charts

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