The Life of William Terriss, Actor
Author : Arthur J. Smythe
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Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,7 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Actors
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Author : Arthur J. Smythe
Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,7 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Actors
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Author : George Rowell
Publisher : London : Society for Theatre Research
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,19 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Arthur J. Smythe
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 10,27 MB
Release : 1898
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Page : 646 pages
File Size : 19,18 MB
Release : 1895
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Author : Arthur J. Smythe
Publisher : Westminster : A. Constable
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 10,82 MB
Release : 1898
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Author : George R. Sims
Publisher :
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 49,96 MB
Release : 1917
Category : London (England)
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Author : Michelle Morgan
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 28,68 MB
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1472139488
'Ghoulishly entertaining' Jacqueline Banerjee, Times Literary Supplement 'This is a great book for dipping into . . . the cases themselves are written engagingly and with appealing dramatisation of key events.' Kim Fleet, Crime Review A grisly book dedicated to the crimes, perversions and outrages of Victorian England, covering high-profile offences - such as the murder of actor William Terriss, whose stabbing at the stage door of the Adelphi Theatre in 1897 filled the front pages for many weeks - as well as lesser-known transgressions that scandalised the Victorian era. The tales include murders and violent crimes, but also feature scandals that merely amused the Victorians. These include the story of a teenage man who married an actress, only to be shipped off to Australia by his disgusted parents; and the Italian ice-cream man who only meant to buy his sweetheart a hat but ended up proposing marriage instead. When he broke it off, his fiancée's father sued him and the story was dubbed the 'Amusing Aberdeen Breach of Promise Case'. Also present is the gruesome story of the murder of Patrick O Connor who was shot in the head and buried under the kitchen flagstones by his lover Maria Manning and her husband, Frederick. The couple's subsequent trial caused a sensation and even author Charles Dickens attended the grisly public hanging. Drawing on a range of sources from university records and Old Bailey transcripts to national and regional newspaper archives, Michelle Morgan's research sheds new light on well-known stories as well as unearthing previously unknown incidents.
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Page : 1460 pages
File Size : 28,37 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Actors
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Author : Mrs. Aria (Eliza Davis)
Publisher :
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 17,59 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Authors, English
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Author : Dinah Williams
Publisher : Bearport Publishing
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 25,45 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1617727490
Readers will get a lesson in history in this series of titles that looks at what happened in various historical places and how these happenings are tied to tales of ghosts, poltergeists and other unexplainable phenomena.