Susannah Wilson
Associate Professor of French Studies at the University of Warwick and author of A Most Quiet Murder (Cornell UP, 2025), specializing in nineteenth-century French cultural and medical history.
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Jan 24, 2026 • 47min
Susannah Wilson, "A Most Quiet Murder: Maternity, Affliction, and Violence in Late Nineteenth-Century France" (Cornell UP, 2025)
Susannah Wilson, Associate Professor of French Studies and author of A Most Quiet Murder, explores a late 19th-century French child death through archives and medical records. She traces an abduction, a troubled woman’s reputation, morphine use and suspected simulated illness. The conversation probes courtroom reporting, gendered moral panic, and how psychiatric expertise shaped public judgment.
