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The Damnation of John Donellan Elizabeth Cooke

The Damnation of John Donellan par Elizabeth Cooke

The Damnation of John Donellan Elizabeth Cooke

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Résumé

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 Résumé

The Damnation of John Donellan: A mysterious case of death and scandal in Georgian England 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 Avis

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 *

À propos de 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.

Informations supplémentaires

GOR003523608
9781846684821
184668482X
The Damnation of John Donellan: A mysterious case of death and scandal in Georgian England Elizabeth Cooke
Elizabeth Cooke
Occasion - Très bon état
Broché
Profile Books Ltd
2011-08-04
304
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