Olivia Williams

The central image is of the middle-aged Matilda Hacker and her sister Amelia, strolling on the seafront in Kent. Dressed identically in flounced skirts, lace shawls and gaudy sashes, they were referred to as ‘the Canterbury belles’. Cover of The Illustrated Police News, 7 June 1879

The body in the cellar: another grisly unsolved Victorian murder

8 September 2018 9:00 am

Literary non-fiction demands that a respectable household is not really a respectable household — and the Bastendorffs of 4 Euston…

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