![]() ![]() (For a comparison of the show and the real life woman, RadioTimes has a quick overview. Apprehended in 1873, Cotton was later hung the same year. Though often labeled a “Black Widow” for killing her husbands and lovers for profit, Cotton also reportedly killed several children, including her own, further defying cultural expectations of women. Her weapon of choice was arsenic poisoning, which at the time was all too easily disguised as cholera, typhoid, or one of many gastric illnesses. ![]() The real life Mary Anne Cotton reportedly killed around 21 people during the mid-to-late 1800s in North East England and collected on their life insurance. PBS Masterpiece Theatre premiered the series in its entirety this past Sunday, and you can currently watch the series online for free until June 4, 2017. Based on Scottish criminologist David Wilson’s book Mary Ann Cotton: Britain’s First Female Serial Killer, the two-part series focuses on Mary Anne Cotton, Britain’s first female serial killer (or at least the first to get caught). At the same time, balancing this modern contemporary feminist critique with the Victorian setting results in a muddled message.ĭark Angel is a two-part series that first premiered in 2016 in the United Kingdom as a part of ITV Studios mini-series on the most notorious murder cases in contemporary British history. Dark Angel highlights how the sheer banality of working class white women’s lives in Victorian England creates a backdrop for a woman like Mary Anne Cotton, a real life Victorian female serial killer. However, this very oppression could lead some women to kill for reasons other than protecting their young. Hence, the befuddling why of serial killing, the pleasure of killing for the sake of it, seems particularly antithetical to women’s “naturally nurturing nature.” Okay, let me break that down: patriarchal gender essentialism posits that women’s “naturally nurturing natures” prevent them from mass murder, or even murder at all in most cases, except maybe in the case of protecting one’s young. Female serial killers in particular intrigue me because THE PATRIARCHY. Joanna Froggatt, Alun Armstrong, Jonas Armstrong (cast) Dark Angel Gwyneth Hughes (writer), Brian Percival (director) ![]()
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