The strange affair of Madeleine Smith : Victorian Scotland's trial of the century
MacGowan, Douglas, 1963-2021
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Emile L'Angelier was a working-class immigrant from the Channel Islands who began a clandestine affair with prominent Glasgow socialite Madeleine Smith. Six weeks after Emile threatened to show Madeleine's father their passionate letters, on 23 March 1857, he was found dead from arsenic poisoning. The evidence against Madeleine seemed overwhelming as she went to trial for murdering her lover. Douglas MacGowan's vivid account reads by turns like a thriller, a love story and a courtroom drama. He quotes extensively from contemporary sources, notably the pathology reports, the trial testimony and the infamous correspondence between Madeleine and Emile, whose explicit content so shocked Victorian sensibilities.
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Author:
MacGowan, Douglas, 1963-, author
Imprint:
Edinburgh : Polygon, 2021.
Collation:
208 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: 2007.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781846975806 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
364.152309364.152309411090
Language:
English
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BRN:
2252193