Seven Victorian cases. Seven women. One court that turned private life into public evidence.Women of the Old Bailey follows a nurse in the sickroom, a servant inside the house, a respectable wife under scrutiny, a sensational defendant made into warning, a poisoner explained through obsession, a baby-farmer in a hidden economy of shame, and a household where cruelty was made routine.Drawn from the Old Bailey record, this narrative history traces how the Victorian courtroom judged women-by class, by respectability, by domestic role-long before any verdict was spoken.