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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... Garden Theatre. She had not been out of the Admiralty building for several days, and as the mistress of one of George III's most hated ministers, the first lord of the Admiralty, John Montagu, fourth earl of Sandwich, she had good ...
... garden to the Horse Guards nearby , where he had betrayed a “ most manifest panic . ” 4 Martha was about thirty - four years old ; Sandwich , sixty . She was five feet five inches tall , dark - haired , and " fresh- coloured , " with a ...
... Garden's popular fruit and vegetable market toward the northeastern end of Inigo Jones's once fashionable piazza, where the carriage stopped and the two women alighted. They now stood outside the entrance to Covent Garden Theatre, one ...
... Garden to its rival at Drury Lane, partly because the latter theater was increasingly associated with opposition politics. When the musicians filed into the orchestral well and the violinists began drawing their bows against their ...
... Garden office at the time of the murder but was quickly traced to his estate near Chelsea at Bromp- ton. A scrupulous and public-spirited man, he had for more than thirty years been the mainstay of London's law, a guid- ing light by ...
Tartalomjegyzék
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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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