The Ogress Of Reading

The body of a baby found in a river, a young woman's sadness at giving up her child, one policeman's efforts to bring a killer to justice... Everyone has heard of Jack the Ripper who killed five women. Amelia Dyer, the Ogress of Reading, confessed to taking more than three hundred lives. She was a baby farmer and murderer in a society where unmarried women were shamed by pregnancy and the lives of their babies were not valued. The Ogress of Reading uses a mixture of fiction and fact to explore her crimes and the lives of those affected by them. The cover picture is "Bleeding Heart" by Joanna Bloor.

• | Author: Eithne Cullen
• | Publisher: New Generation Publishing
• | Publication Date: Oct 27, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 102 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1787195821
• | ISBN-13: 9781787195820