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6 Sept 1911
- According to the Oxford researchers, the earliest published use of “poison pen” was 6 Sept 1911 in The Evening Post, a newspaper in Frederick, Maryland. The headline read, “More ‘poison-pen’ letters received.”
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The Littlehampton letters started in 1919 with the two neighbours, Edith Swann and Rose Gooding, whose close friendship breaks down after Edith reports Rose to the NSPCC. Soon after, Edith and other members of Littlehampton start receiving poison pen letters full of threats and bizarre obscenities.
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
A poison pen letter (or poisoned pen letter[1]) is a letter or note containing unpleasant, abusive, or malicious statements or accusations about the recipient or a third party. It is usually sent anonymously, often by employing the ransom note effect to avoid exposing the author's handwriting.
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, remarked glibly that “almost everyone receives an anonymous letter from time to time”; he himself had received “a fairly large number”.
- Emily Cockayne
Jan 8, 2024 · January 8, 2024. In the early twentieth century one genre of anonymous letter became so prominent it was given a name: the “poison pen” letter. Coined in America, the term “poison pen” was first used in 1911 in a headline for an article in the Maryland Evening Post.
- Emily Cockayne
Mar 10, 2020 · After five months of finger-pointing and recriminations, police in November 1923 arrested twenty-five year old Dorothy Myrtle Thurburn, daughter of artist Percy Cecil Thurburn and great-granddaughter of Roger Thurburn, who in the early Victorian era had been Her Britannic Majesty’s Consul in Egypt.
Apr 18, 2024 · When poison pen letters began to be received by members of the Girl Guide troop and the hierarchy of Sheringham, the finger began to point very firmly in the direction of the girl.
