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SUMMARY:Thou Savage Woman
DESCRIPTION:Blessin Adams\, Thou Savage Woman\nFormer police officer and historian\, Blessin Adams\, will introduce us to her bold\, page-turning new history of traitorous wives\, greedy mistresses\, cunning female poisoners and spiteful witches. Sharing the stories of women whose violent crimes shattered the narrow confines of their gender – and whose notoriety revealed a society that was at once repulsed by and attracted to murderous female rebellion.\n\nThis event will include an audience Q&A and after the event there will be an opportunity to get your book signed by Blessin.\n\n\n\nTuesday 17th June\, 7.00pm\nVenue:  Essex Record Office\, Wharf Road\, Chelmsford\, CM2 6YT\nTickets: £12 / £10 concessions (Students\, Under 27s and Unwaged)\nBox Office: essexbookfestival.org.uk or Mercury Theatre 01206 573948\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nTravel and Parking\n \n\nThere are currently bridge and footpath closures around the area of Essex Record Office.\nThere are diversions in place for footpaths and the main access route for Essex Record Office is from Wharf Road.\nThe nearest public car park to Essex Record Office during the works is the Meadows Retail Car Park (CM2 6LU) which can be accessed from the High Bridge Road and Springfield Road (Tesco) roundabout.\nFor full details of how to get to Essex Record Office during these works please see: essexrecordoffice.co.uk/visit-us/getting-here/\nThe public entrance is reached from the riverside path. (Please note that if you ask Google Maps to provide you with walking directions it takes you to the back of the building.)\n\n \n\n \n\n\n\n \nThou Savage Woman: Female Killers in Early Modern Britain by Blessin Adams\n\n\nTraitorous Wives. Greedy Mistresses. Cunning Female Poisoners. Spiteful Witches.\n\nEarly Modern Britain was awash with pamphlets\, ballads\, woodcuts broad-casting bloodthirsty tales of traitorous wives\, greedy mistresses\, cunning female poisoning lacing the supper with deadly substances; of child killers and spiteful witches\, stories of women wholly and unnaturally wicked. These were printed or sung\, tacked the walls of alehouses\, sold in the streets for pennies and read voraciously to thrill all. But why? When the vast majority of murders then (and now) are committed by men.\n\nIn this bold\, page-turning new history\, former police officer and historian Blessin Adams tells stories of women whose violent crimes shattered the narrow confines of their gender – and whose notoriety revealed a society that was at once repulsed by and attracted to murderous female rebellion.\n\nBased on detailed research in court archives\, each chapter explores murders that thrilled and terrified the British public; the crimes that caused the most concern and provoked the most debate. Women in this period killed rarely\, and when they did it was usually within the context of extreme provocation or domestic violence.\n\nThou Savage Woman reminds us that women in the past had voices\, that they sought to control their bodies and their environments and that they also had the capacity for committing acts of unspeakable violence.\n\n \n\nOrder a copy of Thou Savage Woman by Blessin Adams from the Essex Book Festival online bookshop at bookshop.org\n\n \n\n\n\n \nBlessin Adams\n[caption id="attachment_10042" align="alignnone" width="245"] Photo of Blessin Adams credit Lee Dixon[/caption]\n\nBlessin Adams traded police work investigating today’s crime in the Norfolk Constabulary for academia\, tracing the lives and deaths of people in Early Modern England. Blessin received her doctorate following research in early modern English law and literature at the University of East Anglia. As a fan of true crime\, she is fascinated by historical stories of murder and justice. Her first book Great and Horrible News published in 2023. She lives in Norfolk with her husband and two dogs and is a beekeeper in her spare time.\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n 
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LOCATION:Wharf Road\, Chelmsford\, Essex\, CM2 6YT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Historical Fiction
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