Knitted Homes of Crime
By Clare Toohey
July 12, 2011The one in the middle is a woolen 16 Gloucester Place, Brighton, East Sussex, circa 1871. From the site of textile artist Freddie Robins, we learn: Christiana Edmunds was a 43 year-old spinster, who lived with her widowed mother. She had become infatuated with a married man, Dr. Beard. In September 1870, she brought a…