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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, Edith Swan, a 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.
Nominator(s): SchroCat 17:52, 16 October 2024 (UTC) [] The Littlehampton libels are one of those footnotes to footnotes of history. Some mildly insulting letters were sent round a small town, and it resulted in four trials and two appeals, and involved the Director of Public Prosecutions, the senior Treasury Counsel, a senior Scotland Yard detective and the Lord Chief Justice.
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 ...
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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