Georgina Rychner is a PhD candidate at Monash University, researching insanity and criminal responsibility in Victorian capital trials. Her interests include histories of medicine, gender and law. Her research on insanity and criminality has appeared in Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, will feature in the forthcoming edition of Health and History as well as the edited collection ‘Infanticide/Mothers Who Kill’ (Demeter Press, 2019). She is currently postgraduate editor for 'Vida', the blog of the Australian Women's History Network.