baby farmer

Rhoda Willis was a baby farmer convicted of murder.

The trial of the "Newlands Baby Farmer" was then undertaken.

Some baby farmers adopted numerous children and then neglected them or murdered them outright (see infanticide).

She was the only woman to be hanged in Wales in the 20th century and the last baby farmer to be executed.

Baby Farmer must die.

The only woman to be executed in New Zealand, Minnie Dean, was a baby farmer.

It also came to light that Mrs Dyer was a close friend of another convicted baby farmer, Margaret Waters.

Mrs Gibbs, the matron of Reading Gaol, produced a written confession the baby farmer composed in custody.

Some baby farmers "adopted" children for lump-sum payments, while others cared for infants for periodic payments.

The main character in Perfume, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, was orphaned at birth and brought up by baby farmers.

Baby farmers (NZHistory.net.

The eponymous heroine puts her newborn "out to nurse" with a baby farmer in George Moore's Esther Waters (1894).

The character of Mrs. Sucksby in Sarah Waters's novel Fingersmith is a baby farmer.

The last baby farmer to be executed in Britain was Rhoda Willis, who was hanged in Wales in 1907.

Ada Chard Williams wrote a letter to the police denying the crime but in effect admitting she was a baby farmer who bought and sold babies for profit.

Though baby farmers were paid in the understanding that care would be provided, the term "baby farmer" was used as an insult, and improper treatment was usually implied.

Australian musical The Hatpin features a mother's experience with a baby farmers and was inspired by the true story of Amber Murray and the Makin family.

In 2011 she published a fictionalised account of two Edwardian baby farmers, who were hanged at Holloway Prison in 1903: The Ghost of Lily Painter.

In George Moore's novel Esther Waters, the eponymous heroine works as a wet nurse after the birth of her son while leaving him in the hands of a baby farmer.

The Gilbert and Sullivan opera H.M.S. Pinafore, the character of Buttercup reveals that, when a baby farmer, she had switched two babies of different social classes.

The baby farmer cases reveal so much about nineteenth-century poverty, and about the desperate situations of women and unwanted children, they really deserve a serious novel, rather than the pantomime treatment they get in Fingersmith...

Particularly in the case of lump-sum adoptions, it was more profitable for the baby farmer if the infant or child she adopted died, since the small payment could not cover the care of the child for long.

In that house there was even more conclusive evidence by the way of pawn tickets, and more letters written to Mrs Stanfield and Mrs Harding, both aliases used by the bloated baby farmer.