Author: Charles FairfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Some Account of George William Wilshere
Author: Charles FairfieldSome Account of George William Wilshere, Baron Bramwell of Hever and His Opinions
Author: Fairfield CharlesPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 114678371X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Cumulative Index to a Selected List of Periodicals
Author: Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Incorporated Law Society
Author: Law Society (Great Britain). LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
... Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Supplementary Catalogue of the Public Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Reference Department
Author: Public Library of New South Wales. Reference DeptPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1140
Book Description
Catalogue
Author: New South Wales Free Public Library, SydneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
Book Description
Catalogue of the Free Public Library
Author: Public Library of New South WalesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 1146
Book Description
The American Catalogue
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 932
Book Description
American national trade bibliography.
Murder, Magic, Madness
Author: Davies OwenPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317867556
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
In 1856 William Dove, a young tenant farmer, was tried and executed for the poisoning of his wife Harriet. The trial might have been a straightforward case of homicide, but because Dove became involved with Henry Harrison, a Leeds wizard, and demonstrated through his actions and words a strong belief in magic and the powers of the devil, considerable effort was made to establish whether these beliefs were symptomatic of insanity. It seems that Dove murdered his wife to hasten a prediction made by Harrison that he would remarry a more attractive and wealthy woman. Dove employed Harrison to perform various acts of magic, and also made his own written pact with the devil to improve his personal circumstances. The book will study Dove’s beliefs and Harrison’s activities within the rural and urban communities in which they lived, and examine how modern cultures attempted to explain this largely hidden mental world, which was so sensationally exposed. The Victorian period is often portrayed as an age of great social and educational progress. This book shows how beliefs dismissed by some Victorians as ‘medieval superstitions’ continued to influence the thoughts and actions of many people, viz most famously Conan `table tapper' Doyle.