Betty Limpany

Betty Limpany was executed by hanging in Devon in 1799.[1][2] She had worked as a maid and was accused of arson by burning down her master's house in Kentisbeare.[1][3][4] She was 17 or 18 years old.[1][3]

In 1997 Wide Angle Productions produced a film based on the case.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Gregory J. Durston (11 August 2014). Wicked Ladies: Provincial Women, Crime and the Eighteenth-Century English Justice System. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 254–. ISBN 978-1-4438-6599-9.
  2. ↑ "Female executions 1735 – 1799". Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  3. 1 2 Cornforth, David. "Exeter's Executed". Exeter Memories. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  4. ↑ Maxted, Ian. "Books with Devon imprints: a handlist to 1800: 1798-1800 (6)". Exeter Working papers in Book History. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  5. ↑ "Betty Limpany". Festival Focus. Retrieved 12 August 2018.


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