The Damnation of John Donellan Elizabeth Cooke

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The Damnation of John Donellan by Elizabeth Cooke

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A tale of greed and family betrayal. It shows the dark and violent underside of the society of Mansfield Park.

The Damnation of John Donellan Summary

The Damnation of John Donellan: A mysterious case of death and scandal in Georgian England by Elizabeth Cooke

In August 1780 Sir Theodosius Boughton, a dissolute Old Etonian twenty-year-old and heir to a Warwickshire fortune, died in painful convulsions after taking his medicine. The following year after an inquest and trial which became a cause celebre, his brother-in-law, Captain John 'Diamond' Donellan, Irish soldier of fortune and man about town, was tried for his murder. The trial was a shambles. And was Donellan guilty? Based on extensive research and the engrossing trial transcripts Elizabeth Cooke's book shows the dark and violent underside of the society of Mansfield Park.

The Damnation of John Donellan Reviews

I read this with great enjoyment. The author has produced a forensically detailed examination of a murder with a witty picture of the social world of the gentry at the end of the eighteenth century. Her eye and ear for the period are unerring. A delight. -- Judith Flanders * Author of 'The Invention of Murder' *
A masterpiece of well-founded suspicions based on first-hand evidence -- Iain Finlayson * The Times *
Highly readable ... gripping * Daily Express *
A fascinating account of a Georgian cause celebre ... just as Kate Summerscale did brilliantly in The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Cooke focuses on legal procedure and forensic evidence to gripping effect -- Kathryn Hughes * Mail on Sunday *

About Elizabeth Cooke

Under the name Elizabeth McGregor Elizabeth Cooke has been writing for over twenty years and has published ten novels: Little White Lies was televised by the BBC and in The Ice Child she turned to a historical theme for the first time with the story of the Franklin expedition. Elizabeth Cooke lives in Dorset.

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GOR003523608

ISBN 13

9781846684821

ISBN 10

184668482X

Title

The Damnation of John Donellan: A mysterious case of death and scandal in Georgian England by Elizabeth Cooke

Author

Elizabeth Cooke

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Profile Books Ltd

Year published

2011-08-04

Number of pages

304

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N/A

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