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Mar 2023
39m 20s

The Case of Eliza Fenning

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Eliza Fenning who worked as a cook in a London household until she found herself in the middle of a poisoning accusation. Her controversial trial brought the bias of the 19th-century British criminal justice system into focus. 
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