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“In retrospect it is scarcely believable that insulting letters passing between obscure people in a small town should result in four assize trials and two Court of Criminal Appeal hearings, and claim the time of a distinguished Scotland Yard officer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, and the senior Treasury Counsel.”

Letters Trials Libels

Book:The Littlehampton Libels: A Miscarriage of Justice and a Mystery about Words in 1920s England

Source: The Littlehampton Libels: A Miscarriage of Justice and a Mystery about Words in 1920s England

“Each woman's story, Edith's especially but Rose's too, is a kind of English story told over and over in fiction and film but rarely in works of history; the tragicomedy of someone who could not perform the ordinariness expected of them.”

Ordinariness Tragicomedy Libels

Book:The Littlehampton Libels: A Miscarriage of Justice and a Mystery about Words in 1920s England

Source: The Littlehampton Libels: A Miscarriage of Justice and a Mystery about Words in 1920s England

“But the Littlehampton libels taught him that a miscarriage of justice could occur easily if one condition was satisfied: if a respectable-looking woman was willing to perjure herself. No jury would doubt her.”

Justice Perjury Libels

Book:The Littlehampton Libels: A Miscarriage of Justice and a Mystery about Words in 1920s England

Source: The Littlehampton Libels: A Miscarriage of Justice and a Mystery about Words in 1920s England