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Dinah Birch: Hate Mail, 21 September 2023
Penning Poison: A History of Anonymous Letters
by Emily Cockayne.
Oxford, 299 pp., £20, September,978 0 19 879505 6 Show More
by Emily Cockayne.
Oxford, 299 pp., £20, September,
“... means to escape poverty. Hopeless rage smoulders throughout these communications. In 1797, William Brown of Benton, Northumberland was sent a menacing letter from somebody claiming to be a former servant, ‘turned away for no reason’, asking that £20 be left under a stone in Tynemouth: ‘me famalry are now starving the Butchers will let them have no more ... ”