Sleepless Souls - Suicide in Early Modern England by Michael MacDonald, Terence R. Murphy

Sleepless Souls - Suicide in Early Modern England

Michael MacDonald, Terence R. Murphy

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Suicide was regarded as a deplorable act, subject to savage punishments, in Tudor and Stuart England. In Georgian England it was de-criminalized, tolerated, and even sentimentalized. Drawing on a wide variety of contemporary sources, Sleepless Sou...

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