Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1     Catherine Hayes, 1726

Chapter 2     Catherine Conway, Elizabeth Banks and Margaret Harvey, 1750

Chapter 3     Elizabeth Brownrigg, 1767

Chapter 4     Charlotte Gardiner and Mary Roberts, 1780

Chapter 5     Charlotte Goodall, 1782

Chapter 6     Elizabeth Taylor, 1785

Chapter 7     Elizabeth Watson, 1787

Chapter 8     Mary Finlayson, 1795

Chapter 9     Anne Hurle, 1804

Chapter 10   Sarah Puryer, 1810

Chapter 11   Charlotte Newman, 1817

Chapter 12   Ann Mary Chapman, 1829

Chapter 13   Martha Browning, 1846

Chapter 14   Maria Manning, 1849

Chapter 15   Ann Merritt, 1850

Chapter 16   Catherine Wilson, 1862

Chapter 17   Florence Bravo, 1876

Chapter 18   Caroline Perry, 1884

Chapter 19   Mary Eleanor Wheeler (Pearcey), 1890

Chapter 20   Ann Sarah Hibberd, 1894

Chapter 21   Amelia Sach and Annie Walters, 1903

Chapter 22   Clara Alice White, 1912

Chapter 23   Marie Marguerite Alibert Fahmy, 1923

Chapter 24   Styllou Pantopiou Christofi, 1954

Chapter 25   Ruth Ellis, 1955

Appendix      Female Executions in London, 1800–1955

Source References from The National Archives   

Index