Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Henry Wainwright
Standard Name: Wainwright, Henry
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1875: Eight years after public executions were...
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1875
Eight years after public executions were abolished, sixty people were invited to watch as Henry Wainwright
(who had shot and then dismembered a woman he had bigamously married) was hanged inside Newgate Prison.
Davenport-Hines, Richard. “Horrid Mutilation! Read all about it!”. London Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2002, pp. 37-9.
