Nineteen year-old Madeleine Smith may have been charged in 1857 with poisoning her lover, Emile L’Angelier, but her real sin was having sex – a lot of sex – out of wedlock.
Her mistake was to write him frank and passionate letters, described by the trial judge as ‘without any sense of decency’, which L’Angelier threatened to send to her father when she cooled on the idea of marriage, having secretly engaged herself to someone else.
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