Borowitz True Crime Digital Collection

Broadside: An account of the execution of Margaret Harvey, a young woman of only 18 years of age, who was executed at the New Drop, London, on Monday the 8th of January, 1821, for the murder of her male bastard child...

Borowitz True Crime Digital Collection

Broadside: An account of the execution of Margaret Harvey, a young woman of only 18 years of age, who was executed at the New Drop, London, on Monday the 8th of January, 1821, for the murder of her male bastard child...

Title Broadside: An account of the execution of Margaret Harvey, a young woman of only 18 years of age, who was executed at the New Drop, London, on Monday the 8th of January, 1821, for the murder of her male bastard child...
Author/Photographer Harvey, Margaret
Date 1821
Time Period 19th century
Description Broadside regarding the execution of Margaret Harvey. Includes lines of poetry written by Harvey, according to the broadside.


Full title: An account of the execution of Margaret Harvey, a young woman of only 18 years of age, who was executed at the New Drop, London, on Monday the 8th of January, 1821, for the murder of her male bastard child, by cutting its throat, and concealing it in her bed-room, and afterwards throwing its mangled body upon the fire, which was nearly burnt to ashes when discovered by her fellow-servant; together with a copy of an affecting letter, written to her mother the evening before her execution!
General Subject Area Crime
Extent 1 broadside (16.5 x 6.5 inches)
Institution Kent State University
Repository Special Collections and Archives
Finding aid title Finding Aid for the British Criminal Broadsides collection
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Format of Original document
Subject Capital Punishment
Crimes Against Children
Murder, General
Provenance British Criminal Broadsides collection
Genre/Format broadsides
poetry
street ballads
Geographical Location United Kingdom. England