Day 7 of the #LadysMagazineAdventCalendar is a 1775 portrait of Jane Butterfield. It was commissioned to accompany an account of her trial for murdering her elderly lover, William Scawen, by poison. Some years previously to this, Scawen had used a female agent to seduce the 14-year-old Butterfield from her parental home. Butterfield was acquitted, and her testimony given in full to the magazine's readers as it 'most peculiarly interest[ed] the female sex'.#WomensHistory #WomenOnTrial