Author: Charlie Lewis BROADPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
The Innocence of Edith Thompson. The Truth about Edith Thompson
Author: Charlie Lewis BROADCriminal Justice
Author: Rene WeisPublisher: Viking Press
ISBN: 9780140294620
Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Since her execution at Holloway prison in 1923, Edith Thompson has haunted the conscience of the nation. Grave doubts were expressed at the time about the extent to which she was responsible for her husband's murder in Ilford by her handsome young lover Frederick Bywaters. The Home Office files on the case were marked not to be opened for 100 years. The case against her rested largely on the evidence provided by 70 letters which she wrote to Bywaters. The truth is that these letters offer a unique insight into the workings of an overwrought romantic imagination, ultimately unable to free itself from the constraints of a suburban marriage and respectability. Through this correspondence and a painstaking reconstruction of the era, the author argues that Mrs Thompson was innocent.
A Tale of Two Murders
Author: Laura ThompsonPublisher: Pegasus Crime
ISBN: 9781643133553
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A riveting account of the notorious “Ilford murder” by the New York Times bestselling author of The Six. 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 of October 3, 1922, as Edith and her husband, Percy, were walking home from the theatre, a man sprang out of the darkness and stabbed Percy to death. The assailant was none other than Bywaters. When the police discovered his relationship with Edith, she—who had denied knowledge of the attack—was arrested as his accomplice. Her passionate love letters to Bywaters, read out at the ensuing trial, sealed her fate, even though Bywaters insisted Edith had no part in planning the murder. They were both hanged. Freddy was demonstrably guilty; but was Edith truly so? In shattering detail and with masterful emotional insight, Laura Thompson charts the course of a liaison with thrice-fatal consequences, and investigates what a troubling case tells us about perceptions of women, innocence, and guilt.
The Truth about Edith Thompson
Author: Charlie Lewis BroadMessalina of the suburbs
Author: E.M. DelafieldPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368939416
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
The Innocence of Edith Thompson
Author: Charlie Lewis BroadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Murder
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
The Innocence of Edith Thompson. A Study in Old Bailey Justice, Etc. [With a Portrait.].
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Author: Charlie Lewis BROADThe Truth about Edith Thompson
Author: Charlie Lewis BroadInnocence of Edith Thompson
Author: BroadRex V. Edith Thompson
Author: Laura ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781784082468
Category : Murder
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The case of Edith Thompson and her lover Frederick Bywaters, both hanged for murder in 1923.