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Book Trial of Mary Blandy

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Roughead
  • Publisher : IndyPublish.com
  • Release : 1914
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 252 pages

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.

Book Women  Writing and the Public Sphere  1700 1830

Download or read book Women Writing and the Public Sphere 1700 1830 written by Elizabeth Eger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-04 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international team of specialists examine the dynamic relation between women and the public sphere.

Book The First Forensic Hanging

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 170 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.

Book Reading Daughters  Fictions 1709 1834

Download or read book Reading Daughters Fictions 1709 1834 written by Caroline Gonda and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-03-14 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been argued that the eighteenth century witnessed a decline in paternal authority, and the emergence of more intimate, affectionate relationships between parent and child. In Reading Daughters' Fictions, Caroline Gonda draws on a wide range of novels and non-literary materials from the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, in order to examine changing representations of the father-daughter bond. She shows that heroine-centred novels, aimed at a predominantly female readership, had an important part to play in female socialization and the construction of heterosexuality, in which the father-daughter relationship had a central role. Contemporary diatribes against novels claimed that reading fiction produced rebellious daughters, fallen women, and nervous female wrecks. Gonda's study of novels of family life and courtship suggests that, far from corrupting the female reader, such fictions helped to maintain rather than undermine familial and social order.

Book Novel Relations

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  • Author : Ruth Perry
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2004-08-05
  • ISBN : 1139454439
  • Pages : 480 pages

Download or read book Novel Relations written by Ruth Perry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-05 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ruth Perry describes the eighteenth-century transformation of the English family as a function of major social changes. She uses social history, literary analysis and anthropological kinship theory to examine texts by Austen, Richardson, Burney, and many others. This important study will be of interest to social and literary historians.

Book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates      A Byzantium  1867

Download or read book Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates A Byzantium 1867 written by Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). Library and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collections of the Advocates Library, with the exception of its legal books and manuscripts, were given by the Advocates to the National Library of Scotland in 1925.

Book Miss Mary Blandy s Own Account of the Affair Between Her and Mr  Cranstoun

Download or read book Miss Mary Blandy s Own Account of the Affair Between Her and Mr Cranstoun written by Mary Blandy and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The personal account of Mary Blandy's love affair with Mr. Cranstoun, and the events that led up to her father's death from arsenic poisoning in 1751, resulting in her trial and execution. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Strong Representations

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  • Author : Alexander Welsh
  • Publisher : Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Strong Representations written by Alexander Welsh and published by Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Alexander Welsh has a personal voice, amused, witty, ironic, and proselytizing. He wears learning lightly and ranged widely over genres and disciplines, pleasing the cultural generalist as well as the nostalgic individualist."--Times Literary Supplement. "[Welsh's] work on narrative is consistently... among the most theoretically original, daringly interdisciplinary, and substantively important that we have."--Modern Philology. "A book this intelligent with this large a thesis and range of interests... naturally leaves one wishing for more."--Nineteenth-Century Literature

Book The Reform of Punishment and the Criminal Justice System in England and Wales from the Late Seventeenth Century to the Early Nineteenth Century

Download or read book The Reform of Punishment and the Criminal Justice System in England and Wales from the Late Seventeenth Century to the Early Nineteenth Century written by Philip Rawlings and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tea and Leg irons

Download or read book Tea and Leg irons written by Caroline Gonda and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life writings by British Women  1660 1815

Download or read book Life writings by British Women 1660 1815 written by Carolyn A. Barros and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2000 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering, diverse collection that provides insight into the powerful motive of self-expression that inspired women autobiographers around the eighteenth century.

Book Miss  Mary Blandy s Own Account of the Affair Between Her and Mr  Cranstoun

Download or read book Miss Mary Blandy s Own Account of the Affair Between Her and Mr Cranstoun written by Mary Blandy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Miss. Mary Blandy's Own Account of the Affair Between Her and Mr. Cranstoun: From the Commencement of Their Acquaintance, in the Year 1746, to the Death of Her Father, in August 1751; With All the Circumstances Leading to That Unhappy Event After the lalt. Conference, my Mamma and Mr. Cranfioun had feveralothcts to the fame Effect; the lal't of which was followed by Mr. Cranfioun's Jour ney to Bath. He attended his Uncle, Lord Mark Ker, thither but before he left Henley, he obtained my Father's Leave to correfpond with me. He went to Barb, if my Memory fails me nm, in the latter'seaf'on of the Year 1747; after 1 had been above a Year acquainted with him. He fiaid at Bath about five or fix Weeks and, after his Return to Henley, lived at our Houl'e, 'with my Father's and Mother's Approbation, five or fix Months. At the End of this Term, he went up to Town and, within a few Days after his Arrival there, wrote to my Father, to beg the favour of him to comply with his Requeli, that I might be permitted to flay for him till his unhappy Affair with Mifs Murray. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Mercurius Britannicus

Download or read book Mercurius Britannicus written by and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Byzantium  1867

    Book Details:
  • Author : Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1867
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 842 pages

Download or read book A Byzantium 1867 written by Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). Library and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Prison Theme in the Eighteenth century Novel

Download or read book The Prison Theme in the Eighteenth century Novel written by Janet Ann Juhnke and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: