Download or read book The Female Parricide Or the History of Mary Margaret D Aubray Marchioness of Brinvillier Translated from the French With a Preface by the Translator in which a Parallel is Drawn Between the Marchioness and Miss Blandy written by and published by . This book was released on 1752 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Print Culture Crime and Justice in 18th Century London written by Richard M. Ward and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first half of the 18th century there was an explosion in the volume and variety of crime literature published in London. This was a 'golden age of writing about crime', when the older genres of criminal biographies, social policy pamphlets and 'last-dying speeches' were joined by a raft of new publications, including newspapers, periodicals, graphic prints, the Old Bailey Proceedings and the Ordinary's Account of malefactors executed at Tyburn. By the early 18th century propertied Londoners read a wider array of printed texts and images about criminal offenders – highwaymen, housebreakers, murderers, pickpockets and the like – than ever before or since. Print Culture, Crime and Justice in 18th-Century London provides the first detailed study of crime reporting across this range of publications to explore the influence of print upon contemporary perceptions of crime and upon the making of the law and its administration in the metropolis. This historical perspective helps us to rethink the relationship between media, the public sphere and criminal justice policy in the present.

Download or read book Some Distinguished Victims of the Scaffold written by Horace Bleackley and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The First Forensic Hanging written by Summer Strevens and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2018-09-30 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘For the sake of decency, gentlemen, don't hang me high.’ This was the last request of modest murderess Mary Blandy, who was hanged for poisoning her father in 1752. Concerned that the young men in the crowd who had thronged to see her execution might look up her skirts as she was ‘turned off’ by the hangman, this last nod to propriety might appear farcical in one who was about to meet her maker. Yet this was just another aspect of a case which attracted so much public attention in its day that some determined spectators even went to the lengths of climbing through the courtroom windows to get a glimpse of Mary while on trial. Indeed her case remained newsworthy for the best part of 1752, for months garnering endless scrutiny and mixed reaction in the popular press. Opinions are certainly still divided on the matter of Mary’s ‘intention’ in the poisoning of her father, and the extent to which her coercive lover, Captain William Cranstoun, was responsible for this murder by proxy. Yet Mary Blandy’s trial was also notable in that it was the first time that detailed medical evidence had been presented in a court of law on a charge of murder by poisoning, and the first time that any court had accepted toxicological evidence in an arsenic poisoning case. The forensic legacy of the acceptance of Dr Anthony Addington’s application of chemistry to a criminal investigation is another compelling aspect of The First Forensic Hanging.

Download or read book Catalogue of the Valuable Library written by John Payne Collier and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of the Valuable Library of the Late John Payne Collier written by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Gentleman s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1752 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains opinions and comment on other currently published newspapers and magazines, a selection of poetry, essays, historical events, voyages, news (foreign and domestic) including news of North America, a register of the month's new publications, a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs, a summary of monthly events, vital statistics (births, deaths, marriages), preferments, commodity prices. Samuel Johnson contributed parliamentary reports as "Debates of the Senate of Magna Lilliputia."

Download or read book The Antiquarian Magazine Bibliographer written by and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Miss written by L. E. Usher and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss Weaves together memories of an Australian childhood, the trials and terrors of women murderers, the arcane matters of bookselling and the intricacies of natural poisons with an acerbic look at literary London.'

Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Burning Women written by P. Banerjee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early modern Europe, the circulation of visual and verbal transmissions of sati, or Hindu widow burning, not only informed responses to the ritualized violence of Hindu culture, but also intersected in fascinating ways with specifically European forms of ritualized violence and European constructions of gender ideology. European accounts of women being burned in India uncannily commented on the burnings of women as witches and criminal wives in Europe. When Europeans narrated their accounts of sati, perhaps the most striking illustration of Hindu patriarchal violence, they did not specifically connect the act of widow burning to a corresponding European signifier: the gruesome ceremonial burnings of women as witches. In examining early modern representations of sati, the book focuses specifically on those strategies that enabled European travellers to protect their own identity as uniquely civilized amidst spectacular displays of 'Eastern barbarity'.

Download or read book Trial of Mary Blandy written by William Roughead and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1914 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

Download or read book French Works in English Translation written by J A R Séguin and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book British Fiction 1750 1770 written by James Raven and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive catalogue of prose fiction published in Britain and Ireland between 1750 and 1770, continuing the already published lists for 1700 to 1749. It is fully indexed and contains an introduction summarizing changes in publication, bookselling, and authorship as derived from the new listings.