Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories by Barbara T. Gates

Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories

Barbara T. Gates

208 pages • 1988

1 edition

nonfiction history psychology informative medium-paced
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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 W...

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