A malevolent Shetland monster in the form of a large fish.
Married Women’s Property Act 1870
Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom that allowed married women to be the legal owners of money they earned and to inherit property.
Marshall Stevens
Property developer whose work with Daniel Adamson and others led to the construction of the Manchester Ship Canal, completed in 1894.
Martha Bradley
18th-century English cook, author of The British Housewife.
Martin’s Close
Ghost story by the English medievalist and author M. R. James, first published in 1911. It centres on the trial of the local squire about 200 years earlier, accused of murdering a young woman who several witnesses claimed to have seen after her death.
Mary Bateman
Poisoner and thief whose most audacious hoax was The Prophet Hen of Leeds.
Mary Bolles
17th-century Yorkshire woman uniquely created a baronetess in her own right.
Mary Eales
18th-century writer on cookery and confectionery, author of Mrs Mary Eales's Receipts (1718)
Mary Hicks, witch
Redirected to Whole trial and examination of Mrs. Mary Hicks and her daughter Elizabeth.
Mary Hobry
French Catholic midwife burnt at the stake in 1688 in London for the murder of her abusive husband.
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