In 1724, a Young Woman was Hanged for Concealing her Pregnancy

On a bustling street in Edinburgh, Scotland, is a cozy pub named Maggie Dickson’s, where patrons can enjoy traditional Scottish delicacies while listening to live music. Most people don’t know, however, that the pub’s name pays homage to a real woman who was the subject of one of Scotland’s most notorious crime stories. <h2>Women in the 1700s were expected to be submissive, quiet, and chaste. Maggie was none of these things.</h2> Margaret “Maggie” Dickson was born in Musselburgh, Scotland, in the early 1700s. In a time when women were expected to marry young, submit to their husbands, and pop out babies, Maggie could think of no worse fate. After all, she saw how miserable her own parents’ marriage was. Her father was an abusive, alcoholic philanderer, and her mother had resigned herself to playing the role of the long-suffering wife. <a href="https://medium.com/history-of-women/in-1724-a-young-woman-was-hanged-for-concealing-her-pregnancy-a0f9a19cde71">Click Here</a>