The painful confession of Maria Clarke, committed to Newgate for the murder of her child.
Accession number:
PML 3469.91B
Published:
[London?] : [printer not identified], [1857?]
Description:
1 sheet ([1] page) ; 23 x 17 cm.
Notes:
In verse.
Maria Clarke, an inmate of the Hackney Union workhouse in London, was charged with drowning her daughter in the Hackney Canal in September of 1857.
First line: "You mother's all, O pay attention, unto these lines that I have penn'd,"
Printed on very thin wove paper in two columns.
Library's copy heavily trimmed.
Variant Title:
First line: You mother's all, O pay attention, unto these lines that I have penn'd,
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