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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... Lady of the 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.
... Hackman's Journey from Newgate to Tyburn 155 APPENDIX 4 Letters by " Sabrina ” and “ Cato ” 161 APPENDIX 5 Herbert Croft's Love and Madness 169 NOTES 201 BIBLIOGRAPHY 219 INDEX 233 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Love & Madness , unlike most short ...
... Hackman's murder of Martha Ray jumped from the page . It clearly had some very unusual attributes . It wasn't just that Hackman was a clergyman and that Martha Ray was a singer and an earl's mistress ; it was also the fact that the ...
... Hackman out of the magazines and newspapers, out of daily life, so to speak, and turned their story into a compelling work of literature. Croft's novel, first published in 1780, is worth reading alongside the short nov- els of Sterne ...
... Hackman, asked to see Miss Ray, and requested that his brother-in-law be sent for. Apparently, he did not real- ize that Miss Ray was dead.11 Someone searched his pockets and discovered two letters, one addressed to his brother-in-law ...
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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