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Florence Maybrick I

Shedunnit

Caroline Crampton

Arts, Books

4.9 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

A shipboard romance that somehow became one of the most notorious domestic poisoning cases in British history. This is the story of Florence Maybrick. Check back for part two of this story on 12 June. Find links to further information and sources at shedunnitshow.com/florencemaybrick. Become a member of the Shedunnit book club and get bonus audio, listen to ad free episodes and join a book-loving community at shedunnitshow.com/membership. Books consulted for research: —The Golden Age of Murder  by Martin Edwards —A is for Arsenic  by Kathryn Harkup —Did She Kill Him? by Kate Colquhoun —The Anatomy of Murder  by Members of the Detection Club To be the first to know about future developments with the podcast, sign up for the newsletter at shedunnitshow.com/newsletter. The podcast is on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and Instagram as @ShedunnitShow, and you can find it in all major podcast apps. Make sure you’re subscribed so you don’t miss the next episode. Click here to do that now in your app of choice. Sponsor: —Audible: get a free audiobook of your choice and  help the show out at the same time at shedunnitshow.com/audible. Find a full transcript of this episode at shedunnitshow.com/florencemaybricktranscript. Music by Audioblocks and Blue Dot Sessions. See shedunnitshow.com/musiccredits for more details. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:01.2

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Currently 699 per month, new and eligible former subscribers only, 18 plus, Tees and sees apply. It was the spring of 1880 when a young woman named Florence Chandler and her mother, the Baroness von Rock,

0:42.0

bordered a steamer in New York bound for Liverpool.

0:46.0

Florence was just 17, beautiful, eager and ready for adventure.

0:51.2

On board the SS Baltic, she met James Maybrick, a British cotton broker 24 years her senior.

0:57.2

The pair became attached immediately, spending the long days at sea in each other's company,

1:03.0

and attending the dinners and receptions for first-class passengers together. 16 months later, later, Florence and James were married at a church in London.

1:13.0

They had their first child in Liverpool and then spent a couple of years living across the Atlantic in Virginia, where James had regular business dealings.

1:32.0

Then in 1886, they set up home properly in the prosperous Riverside Liverpool suburb of Grasendale. That summer a daughter was born and the bay bricks generally gave the appearance of being a happy, well-to-do

1:45.2

19th century family. They entertained friends and family at home, took drives in the

1:50.9

country and attended the theatre and the races with the cream of Liverpool society.

1:56.0

That was how it looked from the outside. Behind closed doors, it was quite different.

2:10.0

Tensions were already developing that within three years would lead to a murder charge, a death sentence, and international notoriety that was still lingering decades later when the novelists of Detective

2:16.7

Fiction's Golden Age were writing. This is the story of Florence Mabrick. Welcome to She Dunnet.

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