It was the case in poisonings by women,the prosecution said it was premeditated,so not in the heat of the moment.
But how could a frail woman combat a strong husband?
Poison was the only recourse for some women who would not have stood a chance had the first blow not stunned or killed.
I am not saying that all women killers were poor downtrodden drudges,but many were.
In the days when many men got paid in the pub and they drank a good bit of their wages away whilst their wives and children waited outside to try to get some money for food ,many women would have at least entertained the idea of seeing off their drunken husbands but then of course they would have had even less money.
Such hard lives our ancestresses (is there such s word?)lived.
My parents ,born 1896and 1897,could remember women waiting outside the pub with their children,and also a poor woman who every Saturday evening was subjected to being dangled over the railings of the dwellings she lived in,(those who know Manchester, Victoria Dwellings at the bottom of Oldham Rd
by her beautiful long hair,often when she was pregnant.
The attitude of the Police was not to interfere in domestic quarrels!!!!!!
I’ll bet she thought of ways to murder the sadistic man she was married to.
Ooh, that has got me all upset now.
Thanks for telling us about the programme. Viktoria.
