{"product_id":"penning-poison","title":"Penning Poison","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dr Emily Cockayne\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTitle:\u003c\/b\u003e Penning Poison\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 0000-00-00\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Accusatory, libellous, or just bizarre, Penning Poison unveils the history of anonymous letter-writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'er at number 14 is dirty\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReceiving an unexpected and unsigned note is a disconcerting experience. In Penning Poison, Emily Cockayne traces the stories of such letters to all corners of English society over the period 1760-1939. She uncovers scandal, deception, class enmity, personal tragedy, and great loneliness. Some messages were accusatory, some libellous, others bizarre. Technology, new postal networks, forensic techniques, and the emergence of professional police all influence the phenomenon of poison letter campaigns. This book puts the letters back into their local and psychology context, extending the work of detectives, to discover who may have written them and why.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmily Cockayne explores the reasons and motivations for the creation and delivery of these missives and the effect on recipients - with some blas'e, others driven to madness. Small communities hit by letter campaigns became places of suspicion and paranoia. By examining the ways in which these letters spread anxiety in the past Penning Poison grapples with the question of how nasty messages can turn into an epidemic. The book recovers many lost stories about how we used to write to one another, finding that perhaps the anxieties of our internet age are not as new as we think.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198795056\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e Height: 5.4 inches, Length: 8.1 inches, Weight: 0.95239697184 pounds, Width: 1.9 inches\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dr Emily Cockayne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51864345641267,"sku":"9780198795056","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0949\/3636\/7411\/files\/21036743482258.jpg?v=1754224771","url":"https:\/\/bookabaloo.com\/products\/penning-poison","provider":"Bookabaloo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}