Scolds Bridle

Author : Minette Walters
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312956127
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scold's Bridle written by Minette Walters and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995-10-15 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman doctor in an English village finds herself the center of some nasty attention from police as well as villagers. The will of a murdered woman names her the sole beneficiary and people assume she killed her. By the author of The Sculptress.

Author : Minette Walters
Publisher : Pan Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781447208099
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scold's Bridle written by Minette Walters and published by Pan Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few tears fall when rich, spiteful old Matilda's bloody corpse is found, her wrists slit and the ancient scold's bridle--an instrument of torture from the Middle Ages--clamped on her head. Matilda's doctor, one of the few people who actually liked the woman, is revealed to be the main beneficiary of the deceased's will--and the prime suspect of the police. Martin's Press.

Author : Minette Walters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781741757651
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scold's Bridle written by Minette Walters and published by . This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minette Walters takes us on a compelling and unpredictable tour of the tensions between generations, and along a trail of grief made obscure by the mysterious loss of Mathilda's detailed, shocking and very personal diaries.

Author : Ernest W. Pettifer
Publisher : Waterside Press
ISBN 13 : 9781872870052
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Punishments of Former Days written by Ernest W. Pettifer and published by Waterside Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book written in 1939 and later discovered and rescued by Waterside Press - that gives a detailed account of the often barbaric or shameful punishments used in former times. Since this book was first published in the 1950s the description it contains of the history of crime and punishment in Britain over the previous 200 years or so has attracted interest across a wide spectrum. The work was reprinted in 1992 by Waterside Press having been out of print for decades. The contents cover a wide range of historic punishments from outlawry to the ducking stool, the pillory, stocks and whirligig to the branding iron and scold's bridle. From mutilation and torture to sanctuary and the emergence of private and then public prisons this is an essential addition to any criminal justice collection - imbued as it is by the comments of the author from the perspective of his own era, which provides for fascination in itself. Printed in the original style and format - together with a large number of the original illustrations. Quite absorbing - The book transports the reader to a time when punishments were often brutal, unrestrained and unregulated by standards, fairness or consistency. It also looks at the sometimes strange logic that was applied by judges, justices of the peace and those charged with carrying out the task.

Author : Minette Walters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781842830550
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scold's Bridle written by Minette Walters and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alice Morse Earle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Curious Punishments of Bygone Days written by Alice Morse Earle and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dana E. Aspinall
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815335153
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Taming of the Shrew written by Dana E. Aspinall and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Taming of the Shrew, Critical Essays provides comprehensive and up-to-date critical readings of the play. The editor has selected essays that offer the most influential and controversial arguments surrounding the play.

Author : Minette Walters
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312427542
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sculptress written by Minette Walters and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Edgar Award and the Macavity Award for Best Novel In prison they call her the sculptress: a grotesquely obese young woman convicted of cutting her mother and sister to pieces and rearranging their bodies on the floor like a jigsaw puzzle. She pleaded guilty to the crime, but no one has noticed that the facts don't add up until Rosalind Leigh comes to visit the prisoner, hoping to get a book deal out of her story. The more fevered Rosalind's pursuit of the truth, the closer she gets to the true source of the evil ascribed to the Sculptress in her cell.

Author : Minette Walters
Publisher : Pan
ISBN 13 : 9780330455015
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scold's Bridle written by Minette Walters and published by Pan. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathilda Gillespie's body was found nearly two days after she'd taken an overdose and slashed her wrists with a Stanley knife. But what shocked Dr Sarah Blakeney the most was the scold's bridle obscuring the dead woman's face.

Author : David Schalkwyk
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874137910
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literature and the Touch of the Real written by David Schalkwyk and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It uses the Wittgensteinian notions of "samples" and "criteria" to show that language is involved in the appropriation of aspects of the world through the historically contingent activities of linguistic practice, and it uses Wittgenstein's analysis of aspect perception to forge a new account of the ideological role of the literary and its relation to the real."--Jacket.