Love and Madness: The Murder of Martha Ray, Mistress of the Fourth Earl of SandwichHarper Collins, 2004. dec. 28. - 256 oldal On a spring evening in 1779, as she emerged from London's Covent Garden Theatre, a beautiful young woman was shot in the head at point-blank range by a man in a black suit. The brutal murder was even more shocking because of the victim's identity -- she was Martha Ray, live-in mistress to the Earl of Sandwich and devotee of the arts. The man accused of her murder was none other than James Hackman, a respected Anglican minister and Ray's former lover. The aftermath of the crime created an uproar in London high society, as aristocrats debated Hackman's motives. Had he intended to commit suicide, as he later claimed, but, in a moment of weakness, turned his gun on Ray instead? This riveting tale of a crime of passion re-creates the slaying and the clergyman's trial, which was the unrivaled media sensation of its time. |
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... Admiralty 15 3 The Romantic Redcoat 39 4 Love and Madness 51 5 Sensation 67 6 Newgate Prison 87 7 A Public Example 99 8 Boswell and Hackman 113 9 This Good Old Custom 125 h EPILOGUE 141 APPENDIX I A Poem on the Death of ix.
... San Marino , California , and the quotations from James Boswell's journals are published by permission of Yale University Press . a note on the title Specialists in late-eighteenth-century English literature xii Acknowledgments.
... Boswell he was a “jolly, hearty, lively man”; to the pious, a monster of self- indulgence.7 During his years with Martha, he belonged to several gentlemen's clubs, including the Sublime Society of Beefsteaks, where singing formed part ...
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Newgate Prison | 87 |
An Essay Inspired by James Hackmans Journey | 155 |
Letters by Sabrina and Cato | 161 |
Herbert Crofts Love and Madness | 169 |
NOTES | 201 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 219 |
INDEX | 233 |
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