L’histoire des meurtres commis par Jack l’Eventreur a été racontée maintes fois au fil des années et continue pourtant à captiver les curieux 133 ans plus tard.
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With Lady Antonia Fraser and Catherine Ostler in conversation with Hallie Rubenhold
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The stories of two women who refused to be defined by society’s expectations.
Award winning historian Antonia Fraser introduces Caroline Norton, a 19th-century poet and pamphleteer who became a pioneering women’s rights activist at a time when married women and their children were considered their husband’s property.
Having fallen victim to a botched court case brought by her husband, the MP George Norton, alleging her adultery with the Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne, she fought back against multiple injustices as a campaigner. The Infant Custody Act of 1839 was a landmark achievement.
Author Urmi Bhattacheryya.
It’s hard to make plans with Smita and ensure she sticks to them. You could tell her, “Majnu ka Tilla, 4 pm,” and still expect to be called sometime before schedule and hear whingeing to the tune of: “Actually, mother will be deeply worried if I get too late coming home, didi. Can we do X or Y or Z place, and maybe 3 o’clock instead?”
You grumble and you gripe and, most often, exchange a flurry of petulant words (that you tell yourself you’re permitted after a nearly four-year-long friendship), but you agree. And you meet at a point where she feels, well, safe(r).