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's Madeleine Graham is in fact, with some alterations to her story, the real-life Scotswoman Madeleine Smith
, who was tried for the murder of her lover Emile L'Angelier
(in the novel called Camille...
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22 March 1857: The death by arsenic poisoning of her lover,...
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22 March 1857
The death by arsenic poisoning of her lover, shipping clerk Emile L'Angelier
, led to the prominent trial for murder of Madeleine Smith
, daughter of an affluent Glasgow architect.
Hartman, Mary S. Victorian Murderesses. Schocken Books, 1977.
52-4, 82-3
4 April 1857: The Times declared Madeleine Smith to be...
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4 April 1857
The Times declared Madeleine Smith
to be possibly guilty of the murder of Emile L'Angelier
, her lover.
Liggins, Emma. “The Evil Days of the Female Murderer: Subverted Marriage Plots and the Avoidance of Scandal in the Victorian Sensation Novel”. Journal of Victorian Culture, Vol.
