Margery Lovett
Margery Lovett was a London baker who ran a pie shop in Bell Yard. She was a lover and accomplice of the serial killer Sweeney Todd.
In Victorian era penny dreadfuls, Lovett fulfilled the European archetype of a witch who cooks human flesh. By all accounts, her pies were the most delicious in London.
In the Eleven-Day Empire's Feast of Fools, Lovett was portrayed by a Mother of the Ritual Wing during the L'Amoureux ritual. The parade passed through Sweeney Todd's barbershop to the catacombs under St Dunstan's Church and out through Lovett's pie shop. (PROSE: The Eleven-Day Empire: A Tour of the Capital [+]Loading...["The Eleven-Day Empire: A Tour of the Capital (short story)"])
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Margery Lovett is a character who appears in various adaptations of the story of Sweeney Todd, under various first names.
She has been portrayed on stage and screen by Sheila Hancock, Julia McKenzie, Joanna Lumley, Helena Bonham Carter, and Imelda Staunton.
