4.7 • 908 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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In this episode of Lady Killers, Lucy Worsley, Professor Rosalind Crone and broadcaster Ayesha Hazarika discuss the first four cases - brothel-keeper Mary McKinnon, chocolate-cream killer Christiana Edmonds, enslaved woman Margaret Garner and abortionist Elizabeth Taylor. They examine legal prejudice, frustrated sexual desire, illegal abortion, and slavery.
They explore women’s rights over their own bodies, and dig a little deeper into the parallels between women in the 19th century and women in contemporary society. Together they consider the extent to which progress can be taken for granted, and ask whether anything might have been better for women in the past than today.
Producer: Emily Hughes Sound Design: Chris Maclean Series Producer: Julia Hayball
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0:38.6 | Welcome to Lady Killers with me Lucy Worsley, where True Crime meets History with a twist. |
0:48.4 | From BBC Radio 4. This time on Lady Killers, we look at women's rights over their own bodies. |
1:01.0 | We'll dig a little deeper into the parallels between 19th century women and us today. |
1:06.4 | There'll be frustrated sexual desire, legal prejudice, illegal abortion and slavery. |
1:14.2 | Christina Edmonds, a lady obsessed, a stalker, |
1:19.0 | the poison that she put into chocolate creams, |
1:22.3 | had deadly results. |
1:23.7 | I was seized with violent internal pains, a burning in the throat, and I was seized with a trembling |
1:29.6 | all over. |
1:30.6 | Margaret Garner, an enslaved woman who murdered one of her own children. |
1:35.8 | She wanted to free her daughter from a life of servitude. |
1:40.3 | I would have killed them all and thus in their sufferings then have them taken back to |
1:45.6 | slavery and be murdered. |
1:47.8 | Elizabeth Taylor, a practical midwife who provided women with illegal abortions, sometimes with tragic |
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