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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