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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... once fashionable piazza, where the carriage stopped and the two women alighted. They now stood outside the entrance to Covent Garden Theatre, one of London's three patent theaters. On either side of the doorway two guards- men stood ...
... Once outside and under the piazza, they were overwhelmed by the cries and curses of linkboys, livery servants, and hackney coachmen. Not the least of Martha's problems now was to find her coach amid the traffic jam. Coachmen who had ...
... Once they arrived, M'Namara questioned the clergyman with a shaking voice: what could have possessed him to have committed such an act? The clergyman made no reply. Instead, he gave his name, James Hackman, asked to see Miss Ray, and ...
... once. He himself used to quote the insult- ing words of his Parisian dancing master; apparently, this gentleman had once remarked that he would take it as a spe- cial favor if Sandwich did not reveal who had taught him to dance. Yet he ...
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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