The trial of Emma Cunningham : murder and scandal in the Victorian era /

"The alleged 1857 murder of a wealthy Bond Street dentist by a Emma Cunningham, a young widow he was believed to be sexually involved with, served to distract many New Yorkers from the deepening national crisis over slavery in the United States. Public anxieties seemed well founded-domestic mur...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Jenkins, Brian (Brian A.) (مؤلف)
التنسيق: Licensed eBooks
اللغة:الإنجليزية
منشور في: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers [2020]
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2358634
جدول المحتويات:
  • Murder in Bond Street
  • The inquest opens
  • The coroner's theory
  • Clinton intervenes
  • Verdicts and indictments
  • In the court of public opinion
  • The case for the people
  • The defense
  • The response to the verdict
  • The bogus baby melodrama
  • The question of guilt.