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The Swan family were natives of Littlehampton and had lived at 47 Western Road for several years. Edith Swan was one of the thirteen children of Edward and Mary Ann Swan; [b] the two parents and three of their offspring—Edith and two of her brothers—lived in the family home. The two brothers, aged 39 and 40, shared one of the bedrooms ...
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.
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]
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 ...
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.
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Gypsy Rose and Dee Dee Blanchard's home has become a tourist attraction in Springfield, Missouri. The little pink house was the site of Dee Dee's murder.
Littlehampton, is a seaside resort town and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England, on the east bank at the mouth of the River Arun. The following is a list of those people who were either born or live in Littlehampton, or had some important contribution to make to the town.