London 1849: A Victorian Murder Story

London 1849: A Victorian Murder Story image
ISBN-10:

0582772907

ISBN-13:

9780582772908

Author(s): Alpert, Michael
Edition: 1
Released: Dec 04, 2003
Publisher: Routledge
Format: Hardcover, 248 pages
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Description:

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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