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Female Executions: Martyrs, Murderesses and Madwomen Reprint Edition
Author(s): Geoffrey Abbott (Author)
- Publisher: Summersdale
- Publication Date: October 1, 2014
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 304 pages
- ISBN-10: 1849534934
- ISBN-13: 9781849534932
Book Description
The fairer sex get it in the neck in these grisly tales from the gallows, guillotine, and gas chamber
From Nan Hereford, the cloaked highwayman who held up coaches with just her fists, to the woman who survived the gallows and took her empty coffin away with her, this book illuminates history’s darker periods with a detailed and factual approach. Grimly funny and darkly gripping, interspersed with unusual last requests and black and white illustrations throughout, this is history at its most morbidly fascinating.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“Abbott has a fine sense of gallows humor” and “turns macabre stuff into a light read.” —Publishers Weekly
About the Author
Geoffrey Abbott served for many years as a yeoman warder at the Tower of London. He is the author of 16 books, including the bestselling The Executioner Always Chops Twice. He has made numerous TV documentaries as consultant or executioner, and has written entries on torture and execution for the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
