Moll Cutpurse
It’s time female fraudsters received their due
If you’re after jewel thieves, bank robbers and gold smugglers, look no further than Caitlin Davies’s Queens of the Underworld.…
Yours disgusted, H.G. Wells: the young writer finds marriage insufferable
After a wretched childhood, H.G. Wells was ruthless in making up for lost time, says Frances Wilson
Whores of phwoar: women talking dirty
Jonathon Green is a tosher. As a lexicographer he dives into archives and emerges with armfuls of slangy curios, such…
