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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... 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, Frederick ...
... asking that steps be taken to prevent the prisoner from escaping. Amidst the flood of grief, he must have had some thought for the children he and Martha had had together—Robert, a mid-. H. shipman in the navy ; the schoolboy Basil , a 12 ...
... asking Mahon for details of his conversation with Sand- wich , " which surely , " a writer to the Morning Post reported , " was not requisite for the inquest forming an opinion on the deed , and which he very prudently refused to answer ...
... asked how she met the earl, she always changed the subject.1 She might have felt that Sandwich's station demanded a mistress of equal or near-equal origins, and unable to provide antecedents even closely approach- ing his own, she said ...
... asking her to become his mistress , and though she had no experience of sex , she was practical and knew that even peers must pay for their pleasures . Importantly , she insisted on being treated exactly as if she were the real Lady ...
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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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