Elizabeth
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Elizabeth Brownrigg
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Elizabeth Brownrigg
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Frontispiece from God’s revenge against murder! Or, the tragical
histories and horrid cruelties
of Elizabeth Brownrigg, midwife, to
Mary Mitchell, Mary Jones, & Mary Clifford, her three
apprentices.
London, 1767? From the Boston Medical Library in the Francis A.
Countway Library of Medicine.
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Elizabeth Brownrigg
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Mrs Brownrigg in the cell at Newgate Prison, London; Elizabeth
Brownrigg was executed
on 14 September 1767 for the murder of Mary
Clifford, one of her apprentices.
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Mrs Brownrigg in the cell at Newgate Prison, London; Elizabeth
Brownrigg was executed
on 14 September 1767 for the murder of Mary
Clifford, one of her apprentices.
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Elizabeth Brownrigg
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Elizabeth Brownrigg
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Dossier on Elizabeth Brownrigg.
London: Neele & Stockley, late 18th cent. Mrs Brownrigg in the cell
at Newgate Prison, London;
Elizabeth Brownrigg was executed for Prentice-cide in 1767 having
brutally punished her
apprentices until one died; also shown is the kitchen where girls
were often whipped
and tortured and the hole under the stairs where both were confined
on Sundays.
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The skeleton of Elizabeth Brownrigg, displayed in a niche at the
Royal College of Surgeons.
(Credit: Wellcome Library, London)
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