Faces you'll recognise
Episode guide
This is an account of the Penge Murder which led to the Married Woman's Property Act. Alice Rhodes encourages her lover to marry a "simple" rich orphan after which she is starved to death. Others in the conspiracy are the lover's brother and sister-in-law.
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Dramas about women who made the headlines of Victorian newspapers.