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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... Sandwich, she had good reason to worry about her security.1 Many people held the earl personally responsible for the country's difficulties in its lackluster campaign against the rebellious American colonies and for the fractious ...
The Murder of Martha Ray, Mistress of the Fourth Earl of Sandwich Martin Levy. Head Tavern. Immediately adjacent to the theater's entrance, the building was full of playgoers and actors. Now it pre- sented a scene of disorder as patrons ...
... Sandwich at the Admiralty. Fielding, who had often met Miss Ray in his dealings with Lord Sandwich, was not in his Covent Garden office at the time of the murder but was quickly traced to his estate near Chelsea at Bromp- ton. A ...
... Sandwich had just gone to bed when the messenger arrived from the Shakespeare's Head. It was left to his elderly black servant, James, to break the news to him. Hearing a cacophony of voices outside the building, the earl first thought ...
The Murder of Martha Ray, Mistress of the Fourth Earl of Sandwich Martin Levy. to these ill mannered, improper interrogations.” Neverthe- less, “upon the whole,” the same correspondent added, the inquiry still turned out to be the “most ...
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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