
London 1849
A Victorian Murder Story
Michael Alpert(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 31. January 2017
Book
Hardback
248 pages
978-1-138-15979-2 (ISBN)
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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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 160 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-15979-2 (9781138159792)
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Book
12/2003
1st Edition
Routledge
€40.91
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Person
Michael Alpert taught history at the University of Westminster.
Content
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.