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The Ogress of Reading
Overview
The body of a baby found in a river, a young woman's sadness at giving up her child, one policeman's efforts to bring a killer to justice...
Everyone has heard of Jack the Ripper who killed five women. Amelia Dyer, the Ogress of Reading, confessed to taking more than three hundred lives. She was a baby farmer and murderer in a society where unmarried women were shamed by pregnancy and the lives of their babies were not valued.
The Ogress of Reading uses a mixture of fiction and fact to explore her crimes and the lives of those affected by them.
The cover picture is "Bleeding Heart" by Joanna Bloor.
This item is Non-Returnable
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781787195820
- ISBN-10: 1787195821
- Publisher: New Generation Publishing
- Publish Date: October 2017
- Dimensions: 8 x 5 x 0.24 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.26 pounds
- Page Count: 102
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