Now! Then! Source: Anon, A Particular Account of a Most Entertaining Sale of a Wife, Who Was Sold to a Brisk Young Gentleman at Smithfield, on the 20th of Last Month, for L9. 13s. (1821)

Anon. 1821. A Particular Account of a Most Entertaining Sale of a Wife, Who Was Sold to a Brisk Young Gentleman at Smithfield, on the 20th of Last Month, for L9. 13s. A particular account of the trial and execution of Ann Barber, who was executed at York, on Monday the 18th August, 1821, convicted of the horrid murder of James Barber, her own husband, by poisoning him with white arsenic. Also, a particular account of an entertaining, merry and curious sale of a wife, who was sold to a brisk young gentleman at Smithfield, on the 20th of last month, for £9. 13s.

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13 August 1821: The laments of Ann Barber, adulterous poisoner, on the scaffold at York

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Now! Then! is an almanac portraying Yorkshire on this day. Now! lists modern happenings in the heavens and on earth. Then! consists roughly of 946 historical serendipities (757K words) from the last 2,000 years, quoted from 1,612 more-or-less contemporary accounts, and dealing with 6,780 subjects, such as (automated list!) Leeds, York, West Riding of Yorkshire, Church of England, London, Sheffield, poetry, Bradford, Horse, Kingston upon Hull ... Leeds’s Singing Organ-Grinder has been compiling and coding Now! Then! The Yorkshire Almanac at bedtime to educate himself about his new home since moving from Hackney to Headingley in April 2021. It will soon be available in printed and e-book editions. You can also book a performance with barrel organ of The Yorkshire Almanac Songbook.

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