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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.

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  • 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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