Summer Strevens

Burned at the Stake (eBook, ePUB)

The Life and Death of Mary Channing

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A true story of crime and punishment in eighteenth-century England, and the first trial in recorded history to employ forensic evidence. In 1706, nineteen-year-old Mary Channing was convicted of poisoning her husband and became the last woman to be burned at the stake in Dorset. Despite the likely culpability of her lover, and her impressive attempts to defend herself, the jury took only half an hour to find her guilty, having accepted the groundbreaking toxicological evidence by prosecutors. When the day finally arrived, Mary's execution was made into something of a county fair, with ten thousand spectators gathering to see the young mother consigned to the flames upon the floor of Dorchester's ancient Roman amphitheater, Maumbury Rings. More than three hundred years after her barbaric demise, Mary's fate still holds a macabre fascination, as it did then for author Thomas Hardy, for whom it became an obsession. Hardy recorded the details of Mary's execution in his notebooks, expressed doubt of her guilt, and used her as the inspiration for his poem, "The Mock Wife". Yet while Mary Channing has been granted a kind of grim celebrity, as well as an established place in the annals of female murderers, a measure of compelling sympathy for her case is another lasting aspect of her legacy is this "dramatic and fascinating" chronicle of a woman accused (Ripperologist Magazine).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pen & Sword Books
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781473898745
• Artikelnr.: 50004382

Autorenporträt

Born in London, Summer Strevens now lives and writes in Dorset. Capitalising on a life-long passion for historical research, Summer has embraced writing as a full time occupation. As well as penning feature articles of regional historical interest, her published books include Burned at the Stake: The Life and Death of Mary Channing, The Yorkshire Witch: the Life & Trial of Mary Bateman, Haunted Yorkshire Dales, York Murder & Crime, The Birth of the Chocolate City: Life in Georgian York, The A-Z of Curiosities of the Yorkshire Dales, Fashionably Fatal and Before They Were Fiction.