Poison panic
Barrell, Helen, 1978-2016
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For a few years in the 1840s, Essex was notorious in the minds of Victorians as a place where women stalked the winding country lanes looking for their next victim to poison with arsenic. It's a terrible image - and also one that doesn't seem to have much basis in truth - but this was a time of great anxiety. The 1840s were also known as the 'hungry '40s', when crop failures pushed up food prices and there was popular unrest across Europe. The decade culminated in a cholera epidemic in which tens of thousands of people in the British Isles died.
Main title:
Poison panic / Helen Barrell.
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Imprint:
Barnsley : Pen & Sword, 2016.Barnsley : Pen & Sword, 2016.
Collation:
224 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781473852075 (pbk)
Dewey class:
941.081
Language:
English
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BRN:
1624405