The Murder of Mary Ashford: The Crime That Changed English Legal History by Naomi Clifford

The Murder of Mary Ashford: The Crime That Changed English Legal History

Naomi Clifford

224 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

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In the small hours of 27 May 1817, Mary Ashford, a young servant girl from the village of Erdington near Birmingham, left a party in the company of Abraham Thornton. A few hours later she was found drowned in a pool; an inquest established that sh...

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