Meet three women charged with crimes in London’s east end in the 1870s — brothel keeper Ann Gilligan, smuggler Mary Jones and illicit tobacco-seller Margarethe Schmidt.
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Letter From a ‘Lunatic’
A fiery letter within the correspondence of Poplar’s Poor Law Union, 1882, describes the horrific treatment of a woman in the workhouse ‘lunatic’ ward. Who was the letter writer and supposed lunatic, Catherine Bouchier Phillimore?
