Five Devonshire Murderesses

I have recently published an E book on Amazon,  Five Devonshire Murderesses, that I thought might be of interest to some of the readers here.  The book includes the stories of 5 women who went to trial in Exeter in the 1860s, and who were all incarcerated in Exeter Prison at the same time.  I'd be delighted if anybody who knew of any of the characters involved in the stories - particularly if any were their ancestors - or who are interested in the settings, were able to read the book. I've very much enjoyed the research.  

Here is the link below.  If people don't have a Kindle there is an app to download onto a tablet or PC.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Five-Devonshire-Murderesses-Julia-Joyce-ebook/dp/B087NSQZD3/

The Devon Lent Assizes were opened on Saturday 10 March 1866. Charlotte Winsor was awaiting a fourth attempt by her solicitor Mr Folkard to ward off the hangman’s noose with the use of legal technicalities. Mary Jane Harris was awaiting her Majesty’s Pleasure, to discover her fate after she had removed the noose from her own neck by placing it solely on the neck of Charlotte Winsor.

Young Cornishwoman Elizabeth Duff had smothered the infant she had brought into the world.

Elderly Alice Dobb’s ‘demonic propensity for poisoning’ almost resulted in the death of five victims, all of whom were members of her own family.

Finally, Mary Ann Ashford, whose deliberate death plot was based on the worst of motives, and aimed against the one who of all others should have been safe from her wickedness.

These five women, languishing in Exeter Gaol in the spring of 1866, were in many ways, very different, but they had several things in common. They were all West Country women who had taken, or tried to take the lives of those entrusted to them to cherish and care for. Their crimes were those normally seen in large towns and cities with their seductions of sensuality and vice. Urban profligacy had no place in the beautiful hills and valleys and the picturesque hamlets and fishing ports of the idyllic Devonshire countryside.