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Sep 3, 2023 · In the early to mid-20th century, there seemed to be a “plague” or “epidemic” of poison-pen letters. During the peak, in 1946, the vicar of Holy Trinity, Malvern, in Worcestershire ...
- Emily Cockayne
Sep 3, 2023 · The case remains unsolved to this day, but despite what the letter insinuated, Edgington was never considered a credible suspect. In the early to mid-20th century, there seemed to be a “plague” or “epidemic” of poison-pen letters.
- Emily Cockayne
Jan 8, 2024 · Poisoning was the form of murder most connected to women, and these letters were regarded as a form of social poisoning more often than not perpetrated by women. Designed to cause trouble, the letters were, in some ways, a continuation of neighborly over-the-fence gossip, defamation, and rancor.
- Emily Cockayne
Mar 21, 2024 · Social historian Dr Emily Cockayne looks back at the history of the poison pen and explains how nasty unsigned messages can turn into an epidemic and that the anxieties of the internet age may not be as new as we think.
Mar 5, 2024 · Additionally, there was such an efflorescence of anonymous letter-writing from the late 1930s that the subject in those years probably warrants a separate study. in the early mid-twentieth century there seemed to be a “plague” or “epidemic” of these letters.’
Poisoning was the form of murder most connected to women, and these letters were regarded as a form of social poisoning usually perpetrated by women, and often sent to neighbours. An epidemic of ‘poison pen’ letter cases was perceived, invariably with a woman suspect.
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Sep 21, 2023 · Poison pen letters, denounced in 1928 by a leading criminologist as “cowardly, treacherous, vile things”, appear to have been fuelled by envy, leading judges often to wrongfoot themselves by...
