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By sally tarbox on 11 Mar. 2013
Format: Paperback
Six chapters, each on a criminal - but unknown, at least to me - female. I found two of the women pretty uninteresting:
Alice Perrers, a "rapacious harpy" and mistress of Edward III. There's only so much you can say about the land and the gorgeous outfits she obtained from her adoring lover.
And Lady Ivie, whose forging of documents to obtain land was complicated and rather dull.
But the other four are compulsive reading, like something out of a tabloid newspaper: Sarah Rachel Leverson, who supplemented her income from running an overpriced beauty salon with blackmailing some of her less intelligent clients...
Sparky gang leader and pickpocket Jane Webb...
The wealthy young wife and her female companion who were undoubtedly involved in the Balham Mystery (an incident covered in greater detail in another of Jenkins' works 'Dr Gully'.)
And definitely worst of all, the dreadful Frances Howard, Countess of Somerset. "The passion of a girl of sixteen was the central theme, but it was repeated in a wild variety of love and hate, the hate being as fierce as the love."
Interesting read. ( )