The Victorian Venus of Broadmoor

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception



Broadmoor Hospital for Criminally Insane

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Christina Edmunds

the murdering minx in 1906 ... a scheming image-obsessed temptress was the most notorious inmate of Victorian era Broadmoor hospital for the criminally insane.

These stories were resurrected by a senior archivist, granted unprecedented access - Mark Stevens' Broadmoor Revealed has become an internet hit!

The Dickensian cast also includes Dr. William Minor, paranoid surgeon and random killer; brilliant artist Richard Dad who murdered his father having mistaken him for the devil; or Edward Oxford, failed assassin of Queen Victoria who was labeled a 'hysterial imbecile' but learnt six languages including Latin and to play the violin in prison.

The "chocolate cream poisoner," Edmunds, remained at Broadmoor for 35 years, she was middle-class, educated and of independent means. Her symbol of obession was the married Dr. Charles Beard.  After her alleged near poisoining of Mrs. Beard - her pointless poisoning of random people eventually led to her undoing.

Was she mad? Debates raged that Edmunds was was a faker who got away with murder.

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