ARSENIC AND RESPECTABILITY - Mary Ann Cotton and the Limits of Victorian Justice
By Alana Sanchez
Length52m
About this audiobook
In a world where women were caregivers, where death among the poor was expected. Mary Ann Cotton became respectable. She was a nurse, a wife, a mother. And while she comforted, she poisoned. Arsenic and Respectability is a precise, unnerving portrait of a society where poisoning was easier concealed than suspected.
Audiobook details
GenreTrue Crime, History
Length52 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 24, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1ARSENIC AND RESPECTABILITY
2PREFACE
3Author’s Note
4Chapter One - Ordinary Death
5Chapter Two - Learning Illness
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6Chapter Three - William Mowbray
7Chapter Four - George Ward
8Chapter Five – The Robinson Household
9Chapter Six - Frederick Cotton
10Chapter Seven - John Quick-Manning
11Chapter Eight - The Last Private Death - Joseph Nattrass
12Chapter Nine - The Death That Could Not Be Ignored
13Chapter Ten - Money for the Dead
14Chapter Eleven - Arrest and Trial
15Chapter Twelve - Arsenic and the Limits of Proof
16Conclusion - What the Pattern Reveals
17Appendixes
18BIBLIOGRAPHY
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