'More Deadly than the Male' - The Sexual Politics of Female Poisoning: Trials of the Thallium Women
In September 1952, 30 year old Yvonne Gladys Fletcher of Newtown, New South Wales, stood trial before Justice Kinsella at Sydney’s Central Criminal Court for the murder by poison of her first husband, Desmond George Butler. Popularised through Sydney newspapers this story was a gruesome tale of not...
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University of Western Australia
2002-06-01
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| Series: | Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://www.archive.limina.arts.uwa.edu.au/__data/page/186574/7Scrine2.pdf |