Mary Ann Cotton (born Mary Ann Robson in October 1832 in Low Moorsley, County Durham – died 24 March 1873) was an English woman convicted of murdering her children and believed to have murdered up to 21 people, mainly by arsenic poisoning.
Read more about Mary Ann Cotton: Early Life, Husband 1: William Mowbray, Husband 2: George Ward, Husband 3: James Robinson, "Husband" 4: Frederick Cotton, Two Lovers, Death of Charles Edward Cotton and Inquest, Arrest, Trial and Execution, Nursery Rhyme
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“... people are almost always better than their neighbours think they are.”
—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.”
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“It is remarkable with what pure satisfaction the traveler in these woods will reach his camping-ground on the eve of a tempestuous night like this, as if he had got to his inn, and, rolling himself in his blanket, stretch himself on his six-feet-by-two bed of dripping fir twigs, with a thin sheet of cotton for roof, snug as a meadow-mouse in its nest.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)