Author: Madeleine Hamilton SMITHPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
A complete Report of the Trial of ... Madeleine Smith for the alleged poisoning of P. E. L'Angelier. Revised ... with an introductory chapter, by J. Morison ... With a correct portrait. (Fourth edition.).
Author: Madeleine Hamilton SMITHPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Report of the Trial of Madeleine Smith
Author: Alexander Forbes IrvinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Poisoning
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Trial of Madeleine Smith
Author: Madeleine SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trials (Murder)
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
The Strange Affair of Madeleine Smith
Author: Douglas MacGowanPublisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 0857902725
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 243
Book Description
Discover the true story of Victorian Scotland's trial of the century. It was a case that rocked Victorian society. 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. Ultimately it is up to the reader to judge Madeleine's guilt or innocence.
Madeleine Smith on Trial
Author: Brian JenkinsPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476678405
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
In 1855, Glasgow socialite Madeleine Smith began a flirtation with Pierre L'Angelier, a handsome clerk--for her a mere diversion. But L'Angelier sought social mobility. Their class disparity gave her control of the intrigue but when the relationship turned sexual, the power imbalance shifted. The Scots recognized irregular unions in certain cases. L'Angelier considered Smith his wife, a part she at first discreetly played. When he refused to step aside and allow her a more socially acceptable marriage, his removal became necessary. Smith's sensational murder trial captivated both Britain and America. Despite compelling evidence of guilt, various factors led to her acquittal--her class and gender, the peculiarities of Scottish law--and many believed the case went to trial only because the Crown feared blatant confirmation that justice was not blind.
A Complete Report of the Trial of Miss Madeline Smith
Author: Madeleine SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trials (Murder)
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Murder and Morality in Victorian Britain
Author: Eleanor GordonPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719077685
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This book explores the life of Madeleine Smith, who in 1857 was tried for poisoning her secret lover. As well as charting the course of this illicit relationship and Madeleine’s subsequent trial, the authors draw on a wide range of sources to pursue themes such as the nature of gender relations and the extent of women’s social and commercial activities, and to bring vividly to life the world of the mid-Victorian middle class.The book contains new discoveries about Madeleine’s long and colorful life after the trial which confirm the view that it is only in fiction that the bad end unhappily. The book will be of interest to academic social historians, but the fascination of its subject matter and the way in which much rich material is used to evoke a vivid sense of time and place, will also promote a wider interest among a more general readership.
The Case of Madeleine Smith
Author: Rick GearyPublisher: Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
A scandalous secret affair in 19th Scotland between an upper class woman and a gentleman of lower standing ends in his murder by poison...
A Book of Remarkable Criminals
Author: Henry Brodribb IrvingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
A Scottish Murder
Author: Jimmy Powdrell CampbellPublisher:
ISBN: 9780752440088
Category : Murder
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Madeleine Smith's murder trial was made famous by the shocking nature of her letters to the lover she was supposed to have poisoned. She has always been thought guilty of the crime, dispite the lack of enough evidence to convict her, but now, 150 years later, Campbells foresic discoveries turns the case on it's head.