Poisonous: A Grab Bag of Vintage Bad Bitches

For at least the past 200 years or so, there’s been a lot of debate
about women and the role we’re supposed to play in society.
Historically, we’ve been expected to be the nurturers, the
caregivers—the gentler sex, as we used to be called. We cook the
food, we nurse the sick, we mind the children. Some of us are
perfectly content in that role. But all throughout history, there
have also been women who’ve chafed against these expectations. Some
of them rebelled in a healthy, heroic way—fighting for women’s
right to vote, to manage our own money, to pursue careers. And some
have rebelled in a darker, more toxic way, using the very tools of
stereotypical womanhood—food and drink—to commit the deadliest
crimes. Today we’ll tell you about two of those women. Case 1:
Tillie Klimek. Case 2: The Marquise de Brinvilliers.

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Sources:
Lady Killers by Tori Telfer
Britannica:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marie-Madeleine-Marguerite-dAubray-marquise-de-Brinvilliers

Bounjour Paris:
https://bonjourparis.com/history/mystery-and-murder-in-paris-the-infamous-madame-de-brinvilliers/

PBS: https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/unforgivable-blackness/mann-act-full-text

Medium, Heather Monroe:
https://heathermonroe.medium.com/the-strange-murders-of-tillie-klimek-effa70912b5b


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