Evil Women

The capacity for evil in women has been duly noted in literature by such works as Aeschylus in Agamemnon (Clytemnestra) and Shakespeare in Macbeth (Lady Macbeth–an example echoing all the killer-mothers of children BTW) and King Lear (Goneril and Regan). An early modern writer, who was well-aware of the same possibility, but who is not often recognized, was Agatha Christie who featured some very nasty, evil women villains–something I’ve become more aware of in Suchet’s Poirot mystery series.