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Victorian Suicide : Mad Crimes and Sad Histories /
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[1988]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |