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Broadside: Heart-rending execution of Kitty Shorewood

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Broadside: Heart-rending execution of Kitty Shorewood

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Title Broadside: Heart-rending execution of Kitty Shorewood
Publisher Forster, Printer, York
Time Period circa 19th century
Description Undated broadside regarding the execution of Kitty Shorewood. Includes ballad verses and woodcut illustrations of the affair and the execution.

Full title: Heart-rending execution of Kitty Shorewood. A grazier's daughter, at Liverpool, who was seduced from home, by a naval officer, who brought her to disgrace, and then deserted her. She became pregnant, and ashamed to return to her parents, she wandered about in a state of distraction, among fields and unfrequented places, and frequently slept all night in the open air. At length the pangs of labour seized her, and without human assistance, in a lonely place, she brought forth her lovely child. In a fit of despair, and scarce knowing what she did, she drowned her new-born babe: for which she was brought to trial, and executed, on Monday last at Lancaster, in the seventeenth year of her age. Together with a copy of plaintive verses. 
General Subject Area Crime
Extent 1 broadside
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
Women in Crime
Provenance British Criminal Broadsides collection
Genre/Format broadsides
poetry
street ballads
Geographical Location United Kingdom. England

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