Author: Madeleine Hamilton SMITHPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Trial of Miss Madeleine H. Smith ... for the alleged poisoning of M. Pierre Émile L'Angelier, at Glasgow. Special verbatim report, with portraits and plans, etc
Author: Madeleine Hamilton SMITHPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Trial of Miss Madeleine H. Smith, Before the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, June 30th to July 9th, 1857
Author: Madeleine Hamilton SmithPublisher:
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Category : Trials (Murder)
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Trial of Madeleine Smith
Author: Madeleine SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trials (Murder)
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The Strange Affair of Madeleine Smith
Author: Douglas MacGowanPublisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 0857902725
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Discover the true story of Victorian Scotland's trial of the century. It was a case that rocked Victorian society. Emile L'Angelier was a working-class immigrant from the Channel Islands who began a clandestine affair with prominent Glasgow socialite Madeleine Smith. Six weeks after Emile threatened to show Madeleine's father their passionate letters, on 23 March 1857, he was found dead from arsenic poisoning. The evidence against Madeleine seemed overwhelming as she went to trial for murdering her lover. Douglas MacGowan's vivid account reads by turns like a thriller, a love story and a courtroom drama. He quotes extensively from contemporary sources, notably the pathology reports, the trial testimony and the infamous correspondence between Madeleine and Emile, whose explicit content so shocked Victorian sensibilities. Ultimately it is up to the reader to judge Madeleine's guilt or innocence.
The Arsenic Century
Author: James C. WhortonPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191623431
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Arsenic is rightly infamous as the poison of choice for Victorian murderers. Yet the great majority of fatalities from arsenic in the nineteenth century came not from intentional poisoning, but from accident. Kept in many homes for the purpose of poisoning rats, the white powder was easily mistaken for sugar or flour and often incorporated into the family dinner. It was also widely present in green dyes, used to tint everything from candles and candies to curtains, wallpaper, and clothing (it was arsenic in old lace that was the danger). Whether at home amidst arsenical curtains and wallpapers, at work manufacturing these products, or at play swirling about the papered, curtained ballroom in arsenical gowns and gloves, no one was beyond the poison's reach. Drawing on the medical, legal, and popular literature of the time, The Arsenic Century paints a vivid picture of its wide-ranging and insidious presence in Victorian daily life, weaving together the history of its emergence as a nearly inescapable household hazard with the sordid story of its frequent employment as a tool of murder and suicide. And ultimately, as the final chapter suggests, arsenic in Victorian Britain was very much the pilot episode for a series of environmental poisoning dramas that grew ever more common during the twentieth century and still has no end in sight.
A Complete Report of the Trial of Miss Madeline Smith
Author: Madeleine SmithPublisher:
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Category : Trials (Murder)
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Hon. Society of Lincoln's Inn
Author: Lincoln's Inn (London, England). LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Catalogue of the Books in the Manchester Free Library
Author: Manchester Public Libraries (Manchester, England)Publisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 1670
Book Description
"The Catalogue ... has been prepared with a view to accomplish two objects. One, to offer an inventory of all the books on the shelves of the Reference Department of the Manchester Free Library: the other, to supply ... a ready Key both to the subjects of the books, and to the names of the authors." - v. 1, the compiler to the reader.
Catalogue of the Books in the Manchester Public Free Library, Reference Department. Prepared by A. Crestadoro. (Vol. II. Comprising the Additions from 1864 to 1879.) [With the "Index of Names and Subjects".]
Author: Public Free Libraries (Manchester)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 996
Book Description
Report of the trial of Madeleine Smith ... for the alleged poisoning of P. E. L'Angelier. By A. F. Irvine
Author: Madeleine Hamilton SMITHPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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