Author: William Otter Woodall
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Category : Trials
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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The Murder of Mary Ashford
Author: Naomi Clifford
Publisher: Grub Street Publishers
ISBN: 1473863406
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Historical true crime comes to life with this fictionalized account of a nineteenth-century murder that changed the course of British legal history. England, 1817. In the small hours of May 27th, a young servant girl from the village of Erdington left a party in the company of a man with a bad reputation. A few hours later, Mary Ashford’s lifeless body was found drowned in a pond. Despite a seemingly solid alibi, Abraham Thornton is soon on trial for his life—only to be acquitted at the direction of the judge. Public opinion across the country is outraged, with everyone convinced that a murderer has evaded the gallows. In a last-ditch effort to find justice, Mary’s brother uses an archaic legal process to prosecute Thornton again, only to find himself confronted with an extraordinary challenge. In court, Thornton throws down a gauntlet and demands his legal right to trial by combat . . . and the outcome will alter the course of English legal history. A many-layered fictionalized account, The Murder of Mary Ashford examines the particulars of this famous case while exploring the birth of forensic investigation, the meaning of sexual consent, and the struggle of a modern state to emerge from its medieval heritage.
Publisher: Grub Street Publishers
ISBN: 1473863406
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Historical true crime comes to life with this fictionalized account of a nineteenth-century murder that changed the course of British legal history. England, 1817. In the small hours of May 27th, a young servant girl from the village of Erdington left a party in the company of a man with a bad reputation. A few hours later, Mary Ashford’s lifeless body was found drowned in a pond. Despite a seemingly solid alibi, Abraham Thornton is soon on trial for his life—only to be acquitted at the direction of the judge. Public opinion across the country is outraged, with everyone convinced that a murderer has evaded the gallows. In a last-ditch effort to find justice, Mary’s brother uses an archaic legal process to prosecute Thornton again, only to find himself confronted with an extraordinary challenge. In court, Thornton throws down a gauntlet and demands his legal right to trial by combat . . . and the outcome will alter the course of English legal history. A many-layered fictionalized account, The Murder of Mary Ashford examines the particulars of this famous case while exploring the birth of forensic investigation, the meaning of sexual consent, and the struggle of a modern state to emerge from its medieval heritage.
A Collection of Reports of Celebrated Trials, Civil and Criminal
Author: William Otter Woodall
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Category : Trials
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Publisher:
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Category : Trials
Languages : en
Pages : 348
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Theatric Revolution
Author: David Worrall
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199276757
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This book uncovers the role of stage censorship during the Romantic period, an era otherwise associated with freedom of expression. Theatric Revolution examines this censorship and those who struggled against it.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199276757
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
This book uncovers the role of stage censorship during the Romantic period, an era otherwise associated with freedom of expression. Theatric Revolution examines this censorship and those who struggled against it.
British Critic, Quarterly Theological Review, and Ecclesiastical Record
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Languages : en
Pages : 696
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Languages : en
Pages : 696
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The British Critic, and Quarterly Theological Review
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Languages : en
Pages : 700
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Languages : en
Pages : 700
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The British Critic
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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A Bibliography of Nineteenth Century Legal Literature
Author: J. N. Adams
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 1270
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 1270
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Commentaries on the Laws of England
Author: William Blackstone
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Pluralities indefensible ... Abridged from the third edition
Author: Richard NEWTON (D.D., Principal of Hart Hall, Oxford.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Books III and IV
Author: William Blackstone
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 776
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 776
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