Edith Thompson and Frederick Bywaters were tried together at the Old Bailey in London. This gave weight to the idea that what she had written in the letters was really just the result of Edith’s imagination running wild, and could therefore be discounted in court. Her death was a legal formality". As Charley is clearly more than she seems, Lucy admits to her that she does not intend to accept Grayle’s proposal -- but that she has other reasons for remaining at his home. I’m Caroline Crampton. Her lawyers did appeal, but unsuccessfully. Her biographer, Rene Weis, writes that she was convinced that if she spoke, she could convince the jury that her relationship with Frederick was no sordid suburban affair but rather a grand romantic passion. It was not her hand that struck down her husband. According to the records in the Abbey of Felsecar, the name Grayle first appears in a British context at a Roman fort in the year 305 AD. She might be at rest at last, but the story of Edith Thompson lives on. Less than a month over her conviction, Edith Thompson was dragged into that shed at Holloway Prison and hanged. India Fisher (Charley Pollard), a) 1500 word extract used at trial from 25000 words in total, which in turn were less than half of her total of 51,000 or so words. ALBUM 1: a set of published and unpublished photographs of Edith Thompson and Freddy Bywaters given to René Weis over a number of years by their families and friends and, in the case of Edith, by women who worked with her. There were still ideas around in the 1920s about the harmful effect of romantic or sentimental fiction on women — it lingered for a long time, because it’s the same trope that Jane Austen was making fun of when she wrote Northanger Abbey in 1803. This is the woman you have to deal with, not some ordinary woman. You might know her as the author of the semi-autobiographical The Diary of a Provincial Lady, but she was also a novelist and close friend of the Golden Age detective writer Anthony Berkeley. As only half of Edith Thompson's correspondence was submitted in Court, the jury may well have been led to believe, by this erroneous claim, that a reference to the place, the time, and the manner occurred in one of the letters withheld from them. I had no knowledge of it, and I was stunned and horrified when it took place, and I defy the prosecution to introduce any evidence with which that denial is not absolutely compatible,' and had rested on that, I do not think you could have found a British jury to convict her. Frederick Bywaters was now an 18 year old ship’s laundry steward who was handsome and full of stories about all his travels at sea. Charley mourns the Doctor’s death, and Lucy gives her time to grieve before telling her the Doctor’s last words -- “fast return switch, three times fast.” Realising that the Doctor had a plan after all, Charley asks Lucy to distract Grayle while she carries out the Doctor’s instructions. I won't go too much into the plot as this one is easy to spoil, but we have a closed-circle/timeloop/murder mystery thing going on set in an Edwardian manor house. Now he can have power over everything in existence, and he will start by killing the Doctor while he is still mortal. In any case, Edward’s troops are preventing the barges from unloading their cargo, and Grayle’s masters have missed their opportunity again. There being no material evidence linking her to the planning of the crime beyond the vague suggestions in her letters to Frederick, and her lawyer felt sure that he could argue those represented merely an infatuated woman’s fantasies rather than any concrete intention to act or cause harm. The Big Finish series has touched on this sort of closed-reality setting before, but the way it organically unfolds from a materialisation in an Edwardian larder is brilliantly atmospheric.