Top 20 Lady Gangsters and Criminals of the Victorian Age

The Victorian Age had it all: the Industrial Revolution, iconic fashion, booming progress and Lady Gangsters, Yes, it had some iconic female criminals, In many of the works of Charles Dickens, the author and reformer presented the seamy underworld of London in a manner never before seen, In A Christmas Carol, a woman thief and presumably a housebreaker stole the nightshirt from the dead Scrooge's corpse, along with his linens and bedcurtains, and presented them to a fence for a price, Oliver Twist featured the violent Bill Sykes, the tragic Nancy, the amoral Fagin and a pack of children trained to steal, Dickens described criminals and crimes, jails and courts the affluent homes of the victims of crimes, and the sordid squalor in which the criminals lived, He described the slums of London in a manner theretofore unknown, and the level to which children and unmarried women contributed to the city's criminal underworld.

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