Mary Ann Britland (1847–1886) of Ashton-under-Lyne was the first woman to be executed by hanging at Strangeways Prison, Manchester, England by James Berry on 9 August 1886.
Famous quotes containing the words mary ann, mary and/or ann:
“The dead level of provincial existence.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece was white as snow,
And every where that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go;
He followed her to school one day—
That was against the rule,
It made the children laugh and play,
To see a lamb at school.”
—Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1788–1879)
“This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry’s got a finger in it.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)