Murdering Stepmothers: A Review
Murdering Stepmothers by Anna Haebich Published UWA Press, 2010 (Review first published July, 2010) Long before Disney cashed in on her notoriety, the sinister archetype of the murdering stepmother has held the collective psyche in thrall like no other villain. In an intriguing interlacing of fact and fiction, Anna Haebich takes this morbid fascination as her premise to investigate the trial and execution of Martha Rendell – a Perth woman convicted of poisoning to death three