Death at the Priory: Love, Sex, and Murder in Victorian England
8 best books like Death at the Priory: Love, Sex, and Murder in Victorian England (James Ruddick): The Trial of Lizzie Borden, Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady, The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper, Mad Mary Lamb: Lunacy and Murder in Literary London, The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York, The Italian Boy: A Tale of Murder and Body Snatching in 1830s London, Mr Briggs' Hat: A Sensational Account of Britain's First Railway Murder, The Beautiful Cigar Girl: Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder
The Trial of Lizzie Borden
| Author | Cara Robertson |
| ISBN | 1501168371 |
When Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally hacked to death in Fall River, Massachusetts, in August of 1892, the arrest of the couple’s daughter Lizzie turned the case into international news and her trial into a spectacle unparalleled in American history. Reporters flocked to the scene. Well-known...
| Author | Kate Summerscale |
| ISBN | 1608199134 |
"I think people marry far too much; it is such a lottery, and for a poor woman--bodily and morally the husband's slave--a very doubtful happiness." --Queen Victoria to her recently married daughter Vicky.
Headstrong, high-spirited, and already widowed, Isabella Walker became Mrs. Henry...
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
Five devastating human stories and a dark and moving portrait of Victorian London—the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper.
Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge,...
| Author | Susan Tyler Hitchcock |
| ISBN | 0393327531 |
After killing her mother with a carving knife, Mary Lamb spent the rest of her life in and out of madhouses; yet the crime and its aftermath opened up a new life. Freed to read extensively, she discovered her talent for writing and, with her brother, the essayist Charles Lamb, collaborated on the famous...
| Author | Patricia Cline Cohen |
| ISBN | 0679740759 |
In 1836, the murder of a young prostitute made headlines in New York City and around the country, inaugurating a sex-and-death sensationalism in news reporting that haunts us today. Patricia Cline Cohen goes behind these first lurid accounts to reconstruct the story of the mysterious victim, Helen...
| Author | Sarah Wise |
| ISBN | 0805078495 |
"A work of great skill and sympathy, a meditation on one of the sorrowful mysteries once to be found on the streets of London. For any student of the city and its secret life, it is indispensable reading."
-Peter Ackroyd, The Times (London)
Before his murder in 1831, the "Italian boy" was...
Mr Briggs' Hat: A Sensational Account of Britain's First Railway Murder
| Author | Kate Colquhoun |
| ISBN | 1847443699 |
On 9 July 1864, after an evening with relatives, Thomas Briggs walked through Fenchurch Station and entered carriage 69 on the 9.45 Hackney-bound train. Little did he know that he was travelling into history ...
A few minutes later, two bank clerks entered the compartment. As they sat down,...
On July 28, 1841, the body of Mary Rogers, a twenty-year-old cigar girl, was found floating in the Hudson-and New York's unregulated police force proved incapable of solving the crime. One year later, a struggling writer named Edgar Allan Poe decided to take on the case-and sent his fictional detective,...
