Broadmoor Revealed: Victorian Crime And the Lunatic Asylum
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This is perhaps a reflection on how scandalous women fulfilled the voyeuristic delight of Victorian society. For Christiana was a woman who satisfied certain stereotypes, and her story included sex and murder. The tabloids christened Christiana ‘The Chocolate Cream Poisoner’.
Born in Margate, Kent, the daughter of a local architect, and sent to private school, Christiana grew up in a household already touched by insanity. For the Victorians, the mental illness found in Christiana’s close family ...would prove to be a strong factor in her own diagnosis. Hereditary insanity was marked: her father had apparently gone mad before his early death, and two of her siblings died in adulthood, a brother in Earlsfield Asylum in London, and a sister allegedly by her own hand. Nevertheless, she came from a very comfortable, middle class background, and was described at her first trial as ‘a lady of fortune, tall, fair, handsome and extremely prepossessing in demeanour’. From the age of around fourteen, she lived alone with her sister and their mother, an aging landlady..
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
This is perhaps a reflection on how scandalous women fulfilled the voyeuristic delight of Victorian society. For Christiana was a woman who satisfied certain stereotypes, and her story included sex and murder. The tabloids christened Christiana ‘The Chocolate Cream Poisoner’.
Born in Margate, Kent, the daughter of a local architect, and sent to private school, Christiana grew up in a household already touched by insanity. For the Victorians, the mental illness found in Christiana’s close family ...would prove to be a strong factor in her own diagnosis. Hereditary insanity was marked: her father had apparently gone mad before his early death, and two of her siblings died in adulthood, a brother in Earlsfield Asylum in London, and a sister allegedly by her own hand. Nevertheless, she came from a very comfortable, middle class background, and was described at her first trial as ‘a lady of fortune, tall, fair, handsome and extremely prepossessing in demeanour’. From the age of around fourteen, she lived alone with her sister and their mother, an aging landlady..
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