CHRISTIANA EDMUNDS: THE CHOCOLATE CREAM KILLER
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SYNOPSIS
In 1871, the seaside town of Brighton, England saw one of the more bizarre cases of the Victorian age play out when a lady of the town, Miss Christiana Edmunds, found her romantic feelings for a local doctor knocked back. As the pain of the unrequited love affair became too much, Christiana attempted and failed to commit murder and then in a perverse effort to clear her name, decided to carry out a mass poisoning campaign.
Wohl, Anthony S. (1983) Endangered Lives: Public Health in Victorian Britain. Cambridge: Harvard UP
Jones, Kaye (2016) The Case of The Chocolate Cream Killer: The Poisonous Passion of Christiana Edmunds. Pen & Sword History, Barnsley, UK
Brighton Gazette (1871) Borough of Brighton, £20 Reward. 17 Aug, 1871. p.4.
Brighton Gazette (1871) Alleged Wilful Poisoning. 24 Aug, 1871. p.6.
Brighton Gazette (1871) The Alleged Poisoning By Sweets. 29 June, 1871. p.7.
Brighton Gazette (1871) Mysterious Death Of A Child – Suspected Poisoning. 15 June, 1871. p.5.
(1871) Poisonous Sweets. Clerkenwell News, 24 June, 1871. p.3
(1871) Summary Of This Mornings News. Pall Mall Gazette, 23 June, 1871. p.4.
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