A good friend of mine has published a stunning book on the life and times of
Adelaide Bartlett and the murder of her husband, see following:
https://www.bookdepository.com/Oh-Damn-Chloroform-Rose-Storkey/9781839524769
MURDERER, MERRY
WIDOW - OR IN MOURNING?
London, 1886
The case of Adelaide Bartlett, tried for the poisoning of her husband Edwin,
created a sensation at the time and remains compelling.
'In the annals of true crime ... one of the strangest stories I ever
encountered ... It has many of the elements of a great film play. Packed with
drama, it was a puzzling mystery and a most unusual love story.'
At the centre of the Pimlico Mystery that shocked Victorian society lie
enigmatic Adelaide, Edwin's death from liquid chloroform, and her illicit
relationship with a clergyman - or even a menage a trois?
Adelaide's family holds truths far stranger than most fiction.Here, for the
first time, their complex secrets are pieced together to reveal extraordinary
events in Victorian social history. The lives of Adelaide's outrageous father,
beloved mother and relatives astonish: no stereotypes apply. With a
twenty-first century feminist 'take' on their global travels and efforts to leave
traumas behind by changing identity and starting afresh, Rose Storkey finds
that more tragedies ensued in war, prisons and affairs of the heart ...
Through uncovering the truths in official documents and newspaper reports about
their heritage, diversity, and struggles, Adelaide's kin are brought to life
and to rest together.
