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Lucy Worsley investigates the crimes of Victorian women from a contemporary, feminist perspective.
Lucy Worsley and Dr Rosalind Crone investigate and re-examine Britain’s most notorious serial killers, including Amelia Dyer who’s thought to have killed hundreds of babies and children and Mary Ann Cotton who murdered three of her husbands and numerous children and step-children. Over in the United States they look at Hannah Mary Tabbs, who killed her lover and back in London delve into the sad case of Esther Lack, the mother who murdered three of her own children.
Lucy and Ros dig deep into the social issues and circumstances that helped create these murderesses. They look back at an era when newspapers were booming and examine the part the press played in shaping the stories of these women and how they were presented to a scandal hungry public. With that in mind they chat through new discoveries now sweeping through society in terms of toxicology and new understandings around mental health. Finally they ask, what has changed today that could have made a difference?
Episode List
- S01E01 – Florence Bravo
- S01E02 – Madeleine Smith
- S01E03 – Lizzie Borden
- S01E04 – Grace Marks
- S01E05 – Getting Away With It
- S01E06 – Amelia Dyer
- S01E07 – Mary Ann Cotton
- S01E08 – Esther Lack
- S01E09 – Hannah Mary Tabbs
- S01E10 – Mad, Bad And Dangerous To Know
- S02E01 – Christiana Edmunds – Chocolate Cream Killer
- S02E02 – Margaret Garner – Icon of Tragedy & Resistance
- S02E03 – Elizabeth Taylor – Serial Abortionist
- S02E04 – Mary McKinnon – Prejudice Against Sex Workers
- S02E05 – Women’s Bodies. Women’s Rights
- S02E06 – Edith Thompson – Modern Woman on Trial
- S02E07 – Marguerite Fahmy – Self-confessed Killer
- S02E08 – Catherine Flannagan & Margaret Higgins
- S02E09 – Jane Toppan – Serial Killer Nurse
- S02E10 – Is the law gender blind
- S02E11 – Bonus episode Lucy Worsley talks to Greg Jenner
- S03E01 – Maria Manning – ‘Lady Macbeth of Bermondsey’
- S03E02 – Marie Christensen – Murderous Matron
- S03E03 – Jane and Ann Boyd – Secret Baby
- S03E04 – Frances Kidder – Wicked Stepmother
- S03E05 – Women on Trial
- S03E06 – Mary Surratt – Assassinating a President
- S03E07 – Sarah Bird – Cruel Employer
- S03E08 – Alice Mitchell – Forbidden Love
- S03E09 – Mary Ann Brough – Mother with Everything to Lose
- S03E10 – Difficult Women
