Laura Thompson
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
The death penalty is never without its ethical conflicts or moral questions. Never more so than when the person being led to the gallows may very well be innocent of the actual crime, if not innocent according social concepts of femininity.
A Tale of Two Murders is an engrossing examination of the Ilford murder, which became a legal cause ce'le`bre in the 1920s, and led to the hanging of Edith Thompson and her lover, Freddy Bywaters. On the night...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Laura Thompson returns with Heiresses, a fascinating look at the lives of heiresses throughout history and the often tragic truth beneath the gilded surface. Heiresses: surely they are among the luckiest women on earth. Are they not to be envied, with their private jets and Chanel wardrobes and endless funds? Yet all too often those gilded lives have been beset with trauma and despair. Before the 20th century a wife's...