biddingfield

Updated: September 15, 2025

As lately as 1763 a woman named Margaret Biddingfield was burned in Suffolk as an accomplice in the crime of "petty treason." She had assisted in the murder of her husband, the actual killing being done by a man; and he was hanged, as no doubt he richly deserved.

Ambrose Bierce - The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays: 1909