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Victorian Suicide : Mad Crimes and Sad Histories by Gates, Barbara is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Victorian Suicide : Mad Crimes and Sad Histories about?
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 through the heart to keep the lost soul from wandering. Probing a remarkable variety of sources and individual cases, Barbara Gates shows how attitud
Who reads Victorian Suicide : Mad Crimes and Sad Histories?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Gates, Barbara
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 1988
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780691600482
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Psychology, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25