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Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories
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Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories

Barbara Gates
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When Viscount Castlereagh, leader of the House of Commons and architect of the Grand Alliance, committed suicide in 1822, the coroner’s inquest could consider only two legal verdicts: insanity or self-murder. Public outrage greeted his burial in Westminster Abbey; the tradition lingered that a suicide’s burial place be at a crossroads, with a stake

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Date
28 June 2016
Pages
210
ISBN
9780691630397

When Viscount Castlereagh, leader of the House of Commons and architect of the Grand Alliance, committed suicide in 1822, the coroner’s inquest could consider only two legal verdicts: insanity or self-murder. Public outrage greeted his burial in Westminster Abbey; the tradition lingered that a suicide’s burial place be at a crossroads, with a stake

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Date
28 June 2016
Pages
210
ISBN
9780691630397

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