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Wellcome Library, And LZ: CI+LZ+, CI-LZ+, CI+LZ2, CI-LZ2 (Hartshorne et al. London.had endured as a consequence of rumors and published reports. He title= 890334415573001 confirmed that ``the printing what was offered in proof prior to the Coroner, drawing odious comparisons involving her and former parricides, and spreading scandalous reports in regard to her manner of demeaning herself in prison, was a shameful behaviour towards her, as well as a gross offence against public justice. The judge, summing up the case, mentioned a lot the identical.107 But these matters were immaterial. The jury were instructed to ``disregard what you have heard out of this location. The matter that they had been to ascertain was regardless of whether when Mary gave the poison to her father she knew it to become poison along with the impact it would have.Ted. Moreover, Blandy's mezzotint was created not simply within the smallest (and cheapest) 6 ?four inch format but was also available as a 14 ?10 inch print, which tells us that her image had a decent industry. In Figure 2, Mary is taking tea with another lady. We could possibly suppose her to become in her personal parlor, but if we look closely we are able to see the bars around the windows and, beneath a slightly raised dress, that she is wearing leg irons; theWalkerFigure 2. ``Miss Mary Blandy, 1751. Engraving. Supply. #Look and Learn/Peter Jackson Collection/Bridgeman Pictures.lettering underneath informs us that Mary is her cell in Oxford Castle.104 Right here she is once again in Figure three, hunting ever so pretty within a nice frock in a pastoral scene. The contradiction is in the detail. The text informs us that the image is ``Taken from life in Oxford Castle, and once again her gown does not cover her shackles. Both the presence of a maid plus the ignominy of being fettered had been matters Mary Blandy raised in her own defense during her trial and have been central to many pamphlets discussing her case.105 The inscription reads ``Miss Molly Blandy who with her own and her sweetheart's contrivance did barbarously and title= journal.pone.0075009 inhumanly poison her own father for his estate. And-- just in case the observer has not kept up with existing affairs--there is definitely an accompanying moral in verse. However the verse underneath delivers an unexpected motive: it will not mention Cranstoun or marriage, alternatively recalling probably the most common parricide narrative of your coldhearted youngster killing their parent for cash, ``How could a hand so soft and fair commit ``a crime so black and horrid? The answer, ```Twas gold, with which mankind is curs'd, / `twas gold that was her raging thirst/Her father's wealth and that alone/it was that turn'd her heart to stone. The verse ends by warning other children to take heed of her ``sad catastrophe. The catastrophe itself was depicted visually elsewhere, as in Figure four, where the primary image shows Mary seeking whimsical and fairly, with her gallows scene underneath. As any eighteenth-century particular person knew, hanging was not a glamorous death. It can be ironic that the title= j.1369-6513.1999.00027.x evidence that permits us to analyze Mary Blandy's trial and reactions to it so totally is the fact that of which she most complained. At her trial, Mary spoke out against the ``hardships sheJournal of Household History 41(three)Figure 3.