Reprieved at Lincoln

Lucy Ann Buxton, Emma Wade and Selina Stanhope
Lucy Ann Buxton, Emma Wade and Selina Stanhope were three women residing in different parts of the county of Lincolnshire in the second half of the nineteenth-century:

In the second half of the nineteenth century, three women from very different social backgrounds were convicted of infanticide and sentenced to death at the Lincoln Assizes. Lucy Ann Buxton, from Metheringham Fen, was a petty criminal whose mother was an opium addict; Emma Wade, from Stamford, was the daughter of a respected policeman; whilst Selina Stanhope, from Langtoft, near Market Deeping, was admitted into the workhouse as a destitute pauper, after being rejected by her family.

All three women were eventually reprieved from the hangman’s noose by order of the Home Secretary.

Reprieved at Lincoln delves into the sombre stories of these women and the impact of their crimes on their respective communities. Drawing from a range of contemporary sources, the book also examines previously unpublished documents related to the three cases and sheds new light on judicial processes sometimes shrouded in secrecy and silence.

Pages: 352

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