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The preface highlights the novel’s nuanced approach to murder and adultery while placing it alongside F. Tennyson Jesse’s broader work in crime writing and notable British trials. Supporting context spans the 1930s decade and profiles the author’s life, interests, and contributions to crime analysis.","A PIN TO SEE THE PEEPSHOW  \nF. TENNYSON JESSE  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nFirst published in 1934 This edition published in 2021 by The British Library  \n96 Euston Road  \nLondon NW1 2DB Copyright © 1934 F. Tennyson Jesse Preface copyright © 2021 Lucy Evans Afterword copyright © 2021 Simon Thomas Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library e-ISBN 978 0 7123 6798 1 Text design and typesetting by JCS Publishing Services Ltd  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCONTENTS  \nThe 1930s  \nF. Tennyson Jesse Preface Publisher ’s Note  \nDAY PIECE TO JULIA BOOK ONE  \nBOOK TWO  \nBOOK THREE  \nBOOK FOUR  \nNIGHT PIECE TO JULIA Afterword  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nTHE 1930S   \n 1930: The average age at first marriage is 24.3 for men and 21.3 for women.  \n 1930: The National Birth Control Council is founded, merging five existing birth control societies. Its stated purpose is that ‘married people may space or limit their families and thus mitigate the evils of ill health and poverty’.  \n By the 1930s, a third of women in the UK do paid work outside their home, of whom about a third work in domestic service.  \n 1932: Lilian Wyles is the first woman to be appointed Chief Inspector in the Metropolitan Police, having been among the first female police officers to be given the power to arrest.  \n 1933: The Children and Young Persons Act 1933 raises the minimum age for capital punishment to 18, though nobody under that age had been hanged since a 17-year-old boy in 1889.  \n 1934: A Pin to See the Peepshow is published.  \n 1936: The Abortion Law Reform Association is established, campaigning for the legalisation of abortion. A 1929 Act had added the caveat that an abortion ‘done in good faith for the purpose only of preserving the life of the mother ’ was not a crime. In 1938, a legal precedent is set when Dr Alex Bourne is acquitted of having performed an illegal abortion.  \n 1937: The Matrimonial Causes Act extends the right of women to divorce their husbands, no longer requiring incest, sodomy, cruelty, etc., tobe an additional offence to adultery. (Men could already divorce women  \nfor adultery, without additional offences.)  1938: The Married Woman’s Association is founded by Edith Summerskill and Juanita Frances, with the aim of promoting financial equality between husband and wife and securing equal guardianship rights for mothers and fathers.  \n Throughout the decade, three women are hanged in the UK, all of whom committed murder with poison. There are no laws that distinguish between men and women as regards capital punishment. The last woman to be hanged in the UK is Ruth Ellis in 1955.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nF. TENNYSON JESSE (1888– 1958)  \nFryniwyd Tennyson Jesse was born in Kent on 1 March 1888 – her firstname was originally spelled Wynifried, and ‘Tennyson’ was later added to honour her relationship to her great-uncle, the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Her father was a clergyman who spent several periods posted with his young family in other countries, including South Africa and the Canary Islands.  \nTennyson Jesse attended the Newlyn School of Painting in Cornwall and afterwards, not welcomed home by her mother with whom she had a fraught relationship, she began earning her living by writing. Her first novel, The Milky Way, published in 1914, she later considered ‘very bad’, though it started a career with wide-ranging output, covering topics from detective stories to sailing to a fictionalised account of a real-life, nineteenth-century maid of honour bringing about the fall of the Burmese Royal Family. As well as nine novels, Tennyson Jesse wrote volumes of short stories, poetry, essays, plays and non-fiction.  \nTennyson Jesse was also one of the first female war correspondents, reporting on German attacks in Belgium during the First World War, as well as from Red Cross hospitals in France. At the end of the War, she married Harold Harwood –","cbCaipEbHeXdFjvG","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaipEbHeXdFjvG","pdf",1477116,5,429,"English","en",105,"# The 1930s\n## 1930 to 1938 timeline highlights\n# F. 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