Eliza's Dumplings

Eliza Fenning, a local cook, was hanged in 1815 after a travesty of a trial. She was 22. It was alleged that she had tried to poison her employers with arsenic, but no-one died and the claim that arsenic was involved was never proved. It was widely believed that there had been a terrible miscarriage of justice. There was a procession of thousands from her funeral to her burial in St George's Gardens. Her story will be told by two actors, Debbie Radcliffe and Jules Date, Jules playing the part of William Hone, a journalist, who investigated the evidence and published his findings in the same year. The event will take place in the very church in which her funeral took place, St George the Martyr in Queen Square.