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Join us for a look at two sensational 19th-century British murder trials, where female defendants defied Victorian ideals and challenged legal and medical thinking. For adults. Please register.
Join us and Dr. Amy Milne-Smith, Professor, Department of History, Wilfrid Laurier University for Killers in Crinolines. This lecture will explore the cause célèbre of female murderers in 19th century Britain. Violent crimes committed by women seemed to undercut widespread attitudes that women were nurturing and passive and that violence and aggression were exclusively male traits. This talk will explore how legal and medical discourses grappled with Victorian domestic ideology in the face of horrific female crime. Looking at the trials of Madeleine Smith and Florence Maybrick, this lecture will try to explain the surprising verdicts in the two sensational poison trials.
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If you have any questions, please contact Library Programmer Lauren Contini at lcontini@guelphpl.ca.
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