The Case of Eliza Fenning
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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4.2 • 24.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2023
⏱️ 42 minutes
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| 0:31.0 | Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History class, a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 0:43.6 | Hello and welcome to the podcast, I'm Holly Frye, and I'm Tracy V. Wilson. |
| 0:48.5 | So today we are going to talk about a very controversial trial. |
| 0:53.9 | If you have ever been frustrated by the criminal justice system, this is not going to help, |
| 0:58.8 | but it may at least offer the knowledge that the problems that many people experience |
| 1:03.6 | in that system and how biased and unfair it can be particularly to people who are not |
| 1:09.0 | wealthy have always been around. |
| 1:12.5 | This is the story of a poisoning and a trial and a whole lot of bias in that trial. |
| 1:18.7 | We are talking about Eliza Fening, who worked as a cook in a London household until she |
| 1:24.2 | found herself in the middle of a very serious poisoning accusation. |
| 1:29.6 | So Elizabeth Fening, who went by Eliza was born on June 10th, 1793, to William and Mary |
| 1:36.6 | Fening. |
| 1:38.1 | William was a soldier and was stationed on the Caribbean Island of Dominica, that's where |
| 1:43.4 | Eliza was born. |
| 1:45.3 | The Fening's had nine other children in addition to Eliza, but she was the only one of the |
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