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Edith Swan (left) and Rose Gooding (right) The Littlehampton libels were a series of letters sent to numerous residents of Littlehampton, in southern England, over a three-year period between 1920 and 1923. The letters, which contained obscenities and false accusations, were written by Edith Swan, a thirty-year-old laundress; she tried to ...
In 1920, during the suffragette movement in Britain, Edith Swan, a spinster and devout Christian in Littlehampton, becomes the target of hate mail, an issue of great distress to her controlling father Edward and gentle mother Victoria. Having endured 19 such letters filled with profanities, Edward seeks the assistance of the local police.
Olivia Colman plays Littlehampton spinster Edith Swan, an upstanding religious lady who’s shocked—shocked!—when she begins receiving letters filled with insults spelled out in elaborate ...
The Swan family were natives of Littlehampton and had lived at number 47 Western Road: there's an inconsistency here: would personally leave out the "number" in these and similar addresses. Edith Swan was one of thirteen children of Edward and Mary Ann Swan: the thirteen children?
The "Wicked Little Letters" start arriving even before the dark comedy has begun. The movie is about the escalating battle between prim Englishwoman Edith Swan (Olivia Colman), who is given to ...
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In October 1921, the town hall was the venue for the trial of Edith Swan in the Littlehampton libels case: Swan was eventually found guilty of sending poisonous letters, but not before another person, Rose Gooding, had twice been sent to prison for crimes for which she was entirely innocent. [8]
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