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Finally, it traces and tracks the reinventions of Mary Lefley’s identity found in a variety of different contexts, up and including to present day internet blogs.     Whilst the historical sources are examined, compared and evaluated, the book is not an attempt to either exonerate or prove the guilt of Mary Lefley. Even if that was possible after all this time, it would be treading the well-worn path of previous writers on the subject. 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Two of them, Eliza Joyce and Priscilla Biggadike, were hanged; the third, Mary Ann Milner, committed suicide in her cell, hours before she was due to be executed.    Drawing upon archive sources and the many divergent accounts in the popular press at the time, Attired in Deepest Mourning is the first comprehensive study of all three cases. It analyses in forensic detail the information, misinformation and fake news which defined the lives and deaths of three Lincolnshire women, both at the time, and subsequently. In addition, it presents hitherto unpublished material which takes the reader beyond the hackneyed narrative of the monstrous female poisoner to a more sympathetic understanding of the pressures and circumstances in which the women lived and died.    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Promising a reliable means of destroying the ‘furry detestables’, such products as Battle’s Vermin Killer, Hunter’s Infallible Vermin Destroyer and Barber’s Magic Vermin Killer were sold cheaply over the counter, as well as being sent through the post.   The trade in such dangerous products made serious money for manufacturers, wholesalers, and shopkeepers. Unfortunately, it also contributed to what was frequently described by anxious coroners and excited journalists as a suicide epidemic, often involving desperate young women in domestic service. In addition, the deadly packets of poison also provided a convenient means for the disposal of a brutal husband, an inconvenient wife, or an insured child.   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What had started as suspicion, gossip and malicious speculation, slowly curdled into a toxic cocktail, as the decayed bodies of two women were exhumed eighteen months after their deaths to reveal large quantities of arsenic embedded in their viscera.   The story of John and Elizabeth Garner filled multiple newspaper columns, stuffed full of the sensational, the lurid and the shocking. It also led to serious questions concerning the competence of a distinguished judge and the naivety of an inexperienced jury, as well as claims of a miscarriage of justice which continued for over a quarter of a century.   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