“Do you know anything more about “The Woes of Alice French”?”
“Not much I'm afraid. It gets mentioned by a Reverend B Clarke in a list of murder ballads of the 19th century, but that's about it.”
“And the Wolford Diaries? What are they?”
“The diaries of Earl Wolford, local gentry. He was quite prolific in documenting his own life, but a very boring life it was. It's in the entry for March 15th, 1872.”
“So Alice had some notoriety by the 1870s.”
Behind us, familiar voices spoke up in unison. “Hungry.” they demanded.
