Following the success of the Sheffield Dark Trilogy here is another book about crime in the city during the 19th century. This time it concentrates on the female side of Sheffield’s criminal underground. Here you will meet criminal women transported to the other side of the world for crimes as simple as stealing a few shillings, some boots or some brushes. One appalling women threw her daughter into the Rivelin Dam, not once but twice. There are tragic cases of those killing new born babies in order to hide the crime of unmarried conception. There is one woman who set her husband on fire, whether by accident or intentionally, I leave you to judge’

Some committed crimes against other women. Such as using the art of fortune telling to relieve one woman of her money. or another young girl who thought she was doomed, to kill herself. There was an ignorant midwife who killed two women with her incompetence. But perhaps the kind of woman most feared by the Sheffield authorities were the prostitutes. They were seen as duping innocent young men out of their well earned wages. Sheffield in the 19th century was seen as a hotbed of vice, and the woman who worked in such professions as the most depraved imaginable. All these cases are true and really happened in Sheffield.

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Margaret and Chris Drinkall

March 2021