Published Online: Jun 01, 2017
Page range: 131 - 132
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/abcsj-2017-0009
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This poem is a creative response to contemporary true crime narratives about baby farming in Victorian times, namely Alison Rattle and Allison Vale’s The Woman Who Murdered Babies for Money: The Story of Amelia Dyer (London: André Deutsch, 2011); and the TV documentary, “Amelia Dyer: Martina Cole’s Lady Killers.”