A GIRL � unmarried, I believe � belonging to Whitmoor Bottom (a hamlet that sleeps remote from the world, in one of the great sun-flooded or snow-filled wrinkles of Hindhead), has been arrested in Farnham, on charge of murdering her two-year-old child . . . The journals, exhibiting their satisfaction at sensational copy by the publication of a vile �portrait� of the unhappy woman, offended me to the extent that I read none of that page: it seemed as though to read would be to partake in the crime of making her �notorious�, and cutting her off, in her greatest need, from sympathy . . .
George Surt, March 21, 1898
The Times, Daily Life, March 21, 2003
