The Case of the Poison Pen Letters
Anonymity can be a powerful shield. Tracing the culprit when it came to libellous letter-writing in the early 1900s was not straightforward
Annie Tugwell, the wife of the Registrar for Sutton, Surrey was found guilty in August 1910 of libel for sending anonymous letters and even parcels of dog waste and ‘a female pessary’ to various people, including Canon
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