The Forty Elephants often seem larger than life in A Thousand Blows, and many viewers may be surprised that an all-female gang could have such success in Victorian London.Surprising as it is ...

The Forty Elephants deployed creative means of stealing money, clothes, jewels, and anything else of value, as detailed in author and journalist Brian McDonald's book Alice Diamond and the Forty ...

The all-female Forty Elephants lived by their own shoplifting and pickpocketing code – now a new series from the creator of Peaky Blinders tells the true story of the gang.

Who were the Forty Elephants? Born in Holborn in 1862, Mary Carr had a challenging start in life. By the age of 14, her mother had passed away and her father, a thief and fraudster, was either in ...

And similarly with the Forty Elephants, they not only break the law, they break the rules of what it is to be a woman at the time, which is almost a bigger transgression in terms of society.” 8 ...

Inside the real Forty Elephants from A Thousand Blows Born in 1862 in Holborn, Mary Carr had a difficult start in life as her mum had died by the time she was 14 and her thief and fraudster dad ...

The Forty Elephants were an offshoot of the male Elephant Gang, which had formed in the 1780s. The women were often related to male gang members, but by the 1890s, they were operating independently.

Meet the Forty Elephants gang in brand new look at Steven Knight's A Thousand Blows The 6-episode season premieres February 21 on Hulu.

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It was then around 1890 that she was elected as “Queen” of the Forty Elephants, an all-female criminal gang. The organisation was given this name as they operated from Elephant and Castle.