Victorian suicide: mad crimes and sad histories
Auteur :
Gates, Barbara
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691630397
Date de publication :
19 avr. 2016
Dimensions :
25,4 x 17,8 cm
Poids :
567 g
Format :
B315
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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