Sentimental Murder Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century

Name: Sentimental Murder Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century
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ISBN: 9780374529772

ISBN-10: 0374529779

ISBN-13: 9780374529772

Edition: N/A

Authors: John Brewer

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One April evening in 1779, Martha Ray, the pretty mistress of a famous aristocrat, was shot dead at point-blank range by a young clergyman who then attempted to take his own life. Instead he was arrested, tried and hanged. In this fascinating new book, John Brewer, a leading historian of eighteenth-century England, asks what this peculiar little story was all about. Then as now, crimes of passion were not uncommon, and the story had the hallmarks of a great scandal--yet fiction and fact mingled confusingly in all the accounts, and the case was hardly deemed appropriate material for real history. Was the crime about James Hackman's unrequited love for the virtuous mother of the Earl of…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 6/8/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 7.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Prologue


Preface



Spring 1779



The Press: A Case of Sentimental Murder



The Killer as Victim: James Hackman



Missing Stories: Lord Sandwich and the Making of a Libertine



Missing Stories: Martha Ray and the Life of the Mistress



Love and Madness, A Story too True



Wordsworth and the Doctors



The Nineteenth Century



The Twentieth Century



History and Telling Stories


Notes


Index