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Based on a true story, this is the captivating tale of passionate love and violent death in 1850s Dorset. Though born in obscurity and dying publicly on the scaffold for the brutal murder of her husband in 1856, Martha Brown as a historical character has long been an object of fascination to many people -- especially Thomas Hardy, who witnessed her execution. It is not whether she killed her husband that intrigues, so much as the mystery of her origins, the tragic circumstances of her life, and the injustice of her trial.
Based on a true story, this is the captivating tale of passionate love and violent death in 1850s Dorset. Though born in obscurity and dying publicly on the scaffold for the brutal murder of her husband in 1856, Martha Brown as a historical character has long been an object of fascination to many people -- especially Thomas Hardy, who witnessed her execution. It is not whether she killed her husband that intrigues, so much as the mystery of her origins, the tragic circumstances of her life, and the injustice of her trial.
Nicola Thorne
Nicola Thorne was born in Cape Town, South Africa. Her father was English and her mother a New Sealander, and she was brought up and educated in England. She graduated in Sociology at the London...
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