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Victorian Suicide

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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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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9780691600482
  • Indbinding:
  • Paperback
  • Sideantal:
  • 210
  • Udgivet:
  • 14. juli 2014
  • Størrelse:
  • 178x254x11 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 369 g.
  • 8-11 hverdage.
  • 6. december 2024

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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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