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Broadside: Execution. A full and particular account of the confession and dying words upon the scaffold, of Elizabeth Robinson, midwife, aged 50, who was executed at Essex, on Tuesday, the 28th November, 1820, for the murder of Margaret Thomson and her child in her delivery...

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Broadside: Execution. A full and particular account of the confession and dying words upon the scaffold, of Elizabeth Robinson, midwife, aged 50, who was executed at Essex, on Tuesday, the 28th November, 1820, for the murder of Margaret Thomson and her child in her delivery...

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Title Broadside: Execution. A full and particular account of the confession and dying words upon the scaffold, of Elizabeth Robinson, midwife, aged 50, who was executed at Essex, on Tuesday, the 28th November, 1820, for the murder of Margaret Thomson and her child in her delivery...
Date 1820
Time Period 19th century
Description An account of the confession and execution of Elizabeth Robinson on November 28, 1820.

Full title: Execution. A full and particular account of the confession and dying words upon the scaffold, of Elizabeth Robinson, midwife, aged 50, who was executed at Essex, on Tuesday, the 28th November, 1820, for the murder of Margaret Thomson and her child in her delivery, also an account of numerous horrid cruelties which she practised [sic] in the course of her profession, and which she never confessed till on the scaffold.
General Subject Area Crime
Extent 1 broadside (16.75 x 6 inches)
Institution Kent State University
Repository Special Collections and Archives
Finding aid title Finding Aid for the British Criminal Broadsides collection
Access Rights This digital object is owned by Kent State University and may be protected by U.S. Copyright law (Title 17, USC). Please include proper citation and credit for use of this item. Use in publications or productions is prohibited without written permission from Kent State University. Please contact the Department of Special Collections and Archives for more information.
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Format of Original document
Subject Capital Punishment
Crimes Against Children
Murder, General
Women in Crime
Provenance British Criminal Broadsides collection
Genre/Format broadsides
Geographical Location United Kingdom. England

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