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A Sentimental Murder : Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century by Brewer, John, 1947- is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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"One April evening in 1779, Martha Ray, the pretty mistress of a famous aristocrat, was shot dead at point-blank range by a young clergyman who then attempted to take his own life. Instead he was arrested, tried and hanged. In this fascinating new book, John Brewer, a leading historian of eighteenth-century England, asks what this peculiar little story was all about... Brewer, in tracing Ray's fate through these protean changes in journalism, memoir, and melodrama, offers an unforgettable accoun
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- Author
- Brewer, John, 1947-
- Publisher
- New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780374529772
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Social Science, History, Social_sciences
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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