The Story of Elizabeth Brownrigg
True Crime
20 Episodes
Elizabeth Brownrigg was, by every outward measure of 1767 London, a respectable woman. A parish midwife. A mother of sixteen. An overseer of women and children for St Dunstan-in-the-West. She was 47 years old. Behind the door of a small house on Fetter Lane, over eighteen months, she tortured three orphan girls in her care. One of them died. The trial and execution that followed made her the most-hated woman in Georgian England.
The Story of Elizabeth Brownrigg
True Crime
20 Episodes
Elizabeth Brownrigg was, by every outward measure of 1767 London, a respectable woman. A parish midwife. A mother of sixteen. An overseer of women and children for St Dunstan-in-the-West. She was 47 years old. Behind the door of a small house on Fetter Lane, over eighteen months, she tortured three orphan girls in her care. One of them died. The trial and execution that followed made her the most-hated woman in Georgian England.