Ann Carson

Ann Carson (born Ann Baker) (1785–1824) was an early nineteenth-century American criminal who was described by biographers as "the most captivating beauty of the underworld and the most notorious character in the State" of Pennsylvania. Initially charged and acquitted of the murder of her ex-husband, she was later sentenced to Philadelphia's Walnut Street Prison for a plot to kidnap Pennsylvania Governor Simon Snyder. Incarcerated a second time for counterfeiting, she died of typhoid fever in the prison in 1824.

The 1822 publication of her memoir ''The History of the Celebrated Mrs. Ann Carson'', and 1838 publication of ''The Memoirs of the Celebrated and Beautiful Mrs. Ann Carson'', cemented her fame. Provided by Wikipedia