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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... took Martha Ray and James 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 ...
... took her through Cockspur Street and into the Hay- market and James Street. It then stopped outside a lodging house to pick up one of Martha's friends, a middle-aged Ital- ian woman named Caterina Galli.8 Soon the two women passed along ...
... took the trouble to help them. He caught their coachman's eye and waited with them while the carriage plodded through the congestion. When the vehicle arrived, he handed Signora Galli into her seat and was helping Miss Ray toward the ...
... took charge by rushing forward and wrenching the pistols away from the murderer, who was now covered in blood, his black suit and hair sticky to the touch. The first screams went up and sev- eral bystanders raced to the scene, drawn by ...
... took the female leads. Her flat- terers spoke of her as a second Saint Cecilia, but she was gen- uinely talented. “Her Behaviour on those Occasions, on which for Six Nights together, she alone supported the female Parts in dif- ferent ...
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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