ENGLISH

The damnation of John Donellan: a mysterious case of death & scandal in Georgian England

By Cooke , Elizabeth

Book information

Publisher
Walker Books Ltd;Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Year
2012
ISBN
9780802711434, 080271143X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (4337744 bytes)
Pages
304\0
Time added
2020-11-29 04:16:08
Nonfiction;History;Crime;True Crime;Literature;18t

Description

In August 1780 Sir Theodosius Boughton, a dissolute Old Etonian twenty-year-old and heir to a Warwickshire fortune, died in painful convulsions after taking his medicine. The following year after an inquest and trial which became a cause celebre, his brother-in-law, Captain John 'Diamond' Donellan, Irish soldier of fortune and man about town, was tried for his murder. The trial was a shambles. And was Donellan guilty?Based on extensive research and the engrossing trial transcripts Elizabeth Cooke's book shows the dark and violent underside of the society of Mansfield Park.

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