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26. Nov. 2018 · The actor Jane Wenham, who has died aged 90, brought a delightful stage presence to work that ranged from Shakespeare to the musical Salad Days and even to pantomime. In fact, Wenham seemed...
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Jane Wenham (died 1730) was one of the last people to be condemned to death for witchcraft in England, although her conviction was set aside. Her trial in 1712 is commonly but erroneously regarded as the last witch trial in England .
Wenham made her movie debut in the adaptation of J. B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls (1954). From 1957 to 1961, she was married to the actor Albert Finney, with whom she had a son, Simon, who is a cameraman. Wenham died in November 2018, at age 90.
YearTitleRoleNotes2010Mrs. BatesEpisode: "1.7"1992Judith HainesEpisode: "The Death of the Self"1992Old Boy NetworkMargery WhiteEpisode: "Dances with Moles"1991Mrs. HobbsEpisode: "1.3"JANE Wenham was the last person to be condemned to death as a witch in England. Her case in 1712 became the immediate basis for a spirited controversy. The fecund intellectual developments of the seventeenth century had prepared the way for a rational discussion of the supernatural. The Royal Society was exerting an everwidening influence. A ...
THE LAST PERSON to suffer death for the crime of. England was hanged in 1684, and although records are not com- plete, there seem to have been no guilty verdicts for nearly three decades after that, until the case of Jane Wenham, an old woman of Walkern, Hertfordshire, in March 1712.
23. Aug. 2021 · Author and journalist Jane Wenham-Jones has died at the age of 59. According to a fundraising page set up by her sister Judith Haire, she died on 22nd August of cancer. More than £1,000 has...
11. März 2012 · In March 1712 Jane Wenham, who became known as ‘the witch of Walkern’, was condemned to death for witchcraft at the age of 16. She was found guilty of the charge at Hertford Assizes after...
