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.17 Fielding requested two surgeons who were present to take off the top of her skull , a procedure that was later the object of much criticism for its seeming redundancy and lack of humanity . It was then discovered that Martha's ...
... Garden around 1745. Her father, Job Ray, had trained as a stay maker, while her mother, Mary, had worked as an upper servant in a noble- man's family. Together they opened a woolen draper's shop in Covent Garden's Tavistock Court about ...
... Garden to Holiwell Street, near the eastern end of the Strand, leaving Mary with control of the business.3 Mary then sent Martha to live with a wealthy aunt, who a year or so later, paid a premium to apprentice her to a man- tua maker ...
... garden, the grove, the orchard, the neighbouring woods, all spoke the loves and frailties of the younger monks,” remarked Wilkes, “who [if they had sinned at all] seemed at least to have sinned naturally,” which is to say ...
... Garden Theatre on that tragic night in April 1779 . Sandwich had hired Galli , a retired vocalist and former pupil of Handel , to serve as a companion for Martha and to develop her voice . According to rumor , she had also been one of ...
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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