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Celestina Sommer
Celestina Sommer (1 July 1827 – 11 April 1859) was a Victorian murderess, notorious as much for her escape from the death penalty as for the murder of her only daughter. Known as the "Islington Murderess", she became an international cause célèbre: examined in the world's press, both houses of the British Parliament, even Queen Victoria's inner circle. Her case, recently rediscovered, reignited the fierce debates on crime and insanity, capital punishment and crime and gender.
==Early life==
Born 1 July 1827, she was the fourth of eight children from a respectable family of silversmiths in the north London borough of Islington. An accomplished pianist and teacher of music, she performed regularly at the famed St Martin's Hall, Covent Garden as a member of the greatly respected and hugely popular John Hullah school of music.
In 1845, aged 18, she gave birth to an illegitimate daughter, also called Celestina.
Such were the hardships and social stigmas for unmarried mothers in the Victorian period, the child was immediately handed over to a baby-farmer, with whom she lived until the girl's premature and violent death at the age of just 10. She does, however, appear to have maintained some degree of contact. In 1854, Celestina sr married Charles (Karl) Sommer, a Prussian migrant working in the metalwork and jewellery business, possibly with or even for Celestina's father. The pair were married by license at St Mary's, Islington Parish Church, Middlesex. From the beginning, they lived in Charles' house, in a nearby area since redeveloped as the Packington Estate (recently redeveloped again).
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