London 1849 : a Victorian Murder Story

Imprint
Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014.
Physical description
1 online resource (245 pages)

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Creators/Contributors

Author/Creator
Alpert, Michael.

Contents/Summary

Contents
  • Acknowledgements. Introduction.
  • 1. `Orrible murder in Bermondsey.
  • 2. `An extremely fine woman'.
  • 3. What they ate and what they wore.
  • 4. In sickness and in health.
  • 5. Money, housing and class.
  • 6. Learning, literature and liturgy.
  • 7. `A burst of applause that made the building ring'.
  • 8. Outsiders.
  • 9. Communications.
  • 10. Crime and punishment. Epilogue. Bibliography. Index.
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Summary
London 1849: the city is filthy, plagued, criminal and filling up with refugees from the Irish Famine and the revolutionary wars on the continent...but it is on the brink of reform as stations are built, rioters pardoned and the Great Exhibition planned. The heaving city is the backdrop for the most sensational crime and trial of the decade: the Manning murder case. Throughout the sticky summer the people of London obsessed over the fate of a dominant mysterious woman and her weak husband as the full detail of their slaughter of her lover unfolded. London 1849 follows the murder, trial and execution of the couple, interweaving the scene that was London at the time: crime, noise, cholera, overpacked slums, prostitution, law and order, prisons, fashion, shopping, finance, transport, Marx and Dickens.
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Bibliographic information

Publication date
2014
ISBN
9781317868347 (electronic bk.)
131786834X (electronic bk.)
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