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The Trials of the King of Hampshire: Madness, Secrecy and Betrayal in Georgian England (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781786071781)
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xA Guardian best history book of 2016 Eccentric, shy aristocrat ... or mad, bad and dangerous to know? Neighbour Jane Austen found the 3rd earl of Portsmouth a model gentleman and Lord Byron maintained that, while the man was a fool, he was certainly no madman. Behind closed doors, though, Portsmouth delighted in pinching his servants so that they screamed, asked dairy-maids to bleed him with lancets and was obsessed with attending funerals. After he'd lived this way for years, in 1823 his own family set out to have him declared insane. Still reeling from the madness of King George, society could not tear itself away from what would become the longest, costliest and most controversial insanity trial in British history.
Author: Elizabeth Foyster
ISBN-10: 1786071789
ISBN-13: 9781786071781
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Language: English
Published: 10/03/2017
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.00w x 1.10d
Author: Elizabeth Foyster
ISBN-10: 1786071789
ISBN-13: 9781786071781
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Language: English
Published: 10/03/2017
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.00w x 1.10d
By Elizabeth Foyster
xElizabeth Foyster is a Fellow and Senior College Lecturer at Clare College, Cambridge. She explores the sort of subjects that are often left out of the history books - childhood, married life, sex, relationships with siblings and parents, masculinity, old age and widowhood. She lives in Barnet, North London.
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