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Elizabeth Sheppard Papers
These papers centre mainly on Annie Sheppard's uncompleted project, begun in 1975, to edit the letters of Frances Hodgkins. There are also some more personal items from earlier years.
The Murder of Bessie Sheppard
In 1817 a young girl of no importance called Elizabeth Sheppard was murdered in Mansfield. An ex-soldier called Charles Rotherham, who had fought against Napoleon, was hanged for the crime - then history forgot about them both - yet the town erected a monument to this insignificant girl, not at her graveside, but at the site of her murder. Her grave remains unmarked. Her monument, though, includes details of the man hanged for the crime. The author re-investigated the murder using contemporary records and reconstructions and concludes that the hanged man could well have been innocent. No-one ever spoke up on his behalf, nor was any defence ever presented until the author chose to do so himself. Elizabeth was forgotten. No descendants would cherish her memory. The author wanted to rectify this and pass the girl on to a family, a family that, prior to his investigation was unknown and lived many thousands of miles away. If the hanged man was innocent, was it possible from the scant records available to discover what might really have happened in that insignificant Regency town two hundred years ago? Was it possible, this late, to identify the real culprit?
Memoirs of the City and University of Oxford in 1738
A delightful and often witty description of the Oxford colleges in the eighteenth century. Shepilinda's Memoirs of the City and University of Oxford is a light-hearted but valuable manuscript account of the Oxford colleges in 1738, written by a lively and engaging young woman who had a measure of social access to many of them. Elizabeth Sheppard (pen-name "Shepilinda") was accompanied on her visits by a friend and confidante with the nickname "Scrippy", for whom the resulting memoir and appended collection of poems are intended as a gift. Elizabeth clearly had a facility for getting people to talk to her quite freely, together with a quick grasp of the information she received; she also had ...
Charles Auchester, Volume 2 (of 2)
Reproduction of the original: Charles Auchester, Volume 2 (of 2) by Elizabeth Sheppard
