Life in the 18th Century was a time of great change. It is often referred to as the Age of Enlightenment. Throughout Europe, more people were learning to read, and becoming interested in reason and science. By the end of the 18th century Science and Artistic academies had become well established all over Europe. But life for many was extremely hard. Women had little rights. Indeed, a judge in England stated that it was "perfectly legal for a man to beat his wife, as long as he used a stick no thicker than his thumb" Women were regarded as the weaker sex, emotionally and intellectually. Their...

THE GOLDEN AGE OF POISONING The 19th Century is frequently regarded as the heyday of the poisoner. In the beginning to the middle of the nineteenth century, a poisoning panic engrossed the public imagination. In the Times newspaper in England, between 1830 and 1839, fifty-nine cases of murder by poisoning were reported. By the 1840s, the number reported had risen to hundreds. And, of these hundreds of poisonings, sixty percent involved women murderers. In this fascinating book, best selling author Sylvia Perrini, looks at serial women killers around the world in the 19th Century. Nearly all...

The 20th-century like the previous centuries has seen no end of murders by women with poison as their choice of weapon. And, like the previous centuries the murders have been just as cold and calculating. Why do women prefer to murder with poison? It avoids physical confrontation. It is cleaner than the ugly bloodied scenes of guns or knives. And they believe it is a method that will allow them to get away with murder. Those lucky few, who have managed to survive an attempted murder by these women, have described been poisoned as being equal to being devoured alive. However, the 20th century...

THIS BOOK INCORPORATES 4 SMALL BOOKS I HAVE WRITTEN ABOUT WOMEN SERIAL KILLERS. IT INCLUDES: WSK OF THE 17th CENTURY WOMEN MURDERERS OF THE 18th CENTURY WSK OF THE 19th CENTURY WSK OF THE 20th CENTURY Our society can barely account for evil in males, let alone imagine it in females. The female nests, creates, and nurtures doesn't she or is it that we just want to believe in the intrinsic non-threatening nature of women? Yet, history is full of instrumentally violent women: women who have fought wars and battles throughout the world, with no less ferociousness than men, women such as Dynamis...

In this short book, author Sylvia Perrini profiles eleven Baby Farmers. Baby farmers both repulsed and fascinated the public of the day. The term "Baby Farming" was first used by the British Medical Journal in 1867, in an article entitled "Baby-Farming" in which they described a mother who had turned her children over to the "baby farmer" with the clear understanding that they would be neglected until they died. Over the course of the following year the British Medical Journal, published in a series of sensationalist pieces that many baby farmers committed serial infanticide. The articles...

Murder has existed since the Biblical days when Cain killed Abel and has fascinated man ever since. It has been committed for material gain, money, power, gratification, and/or revenge. In 2011, according to data from the FBI, an estimated 14,612 people were murdered in the United States, which averages out at just over forty per day; one of the highest murder rates of any country on Earth. The United States also holds the dubious honor of having more serial killers than any other country. Serial killings, or multiple murders, are not a new phenomenon. They have been going on for centuries...

"I DON'T LIKE MONDAYS." The Famous hit song "I don't like Mondays" penned by Bob Geldof, was written after the school shootings in San Diego, California, committed by Brenda Spencer. Once she was apprehended and asked why she had done it. Her reply was: "I don't like Mondays, do you?" When one thinks of spree killers or rampage killers, normally one thinks of a male. Men such as the Aurora Colorado Movie Theater James Eagan Holmes, Seung-Hui Cho Virginia Tech Massacre, Columbine school killers Eric David Bennet and Dylan Bennet Klebold, Adam Lanza at Sandy Hook Elementary School, and the...

In this short book of approximately 17,000 words, author and historian, Sylvia Perrini takes a look at women serial killers of Britain. In the United Kingdom when one thinks of women serial killers the names that immediately spring to mind are those of Myra Hindley and Rosemary West. These two women are not mentioned in this book, as it only looks at the serial murders committed solely by females in Great Britain, with no man involved