RUTH ELLIS, MY MOTHER A Daughter's Memoir of the Last woman to be Hanged.

Paperback. On July 13, 1955 Ruth Ellis was hanged for the murder of the lover who jilted her, motor-racing driver David Blakely. Forty years on, her only surviving child, Georgie, recalls her mother's tragic life, which culminated in the murder for which she was executed. She tells it with the acute insight and intimate knowledge that only a daughter could have, supported by a wealth of exclusive family reminiscences and photographs. Illus., Index plus a chapter entitled 'Post-Mortem' which lists the 14 other women to be hanged in England in the 20th-century. 246pp. p/back. With the usual v. lightly browned pp. o/w Nr. F. with no creasing to covers.