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Brewer, John A Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century
London HarperCollins Publishers 2004 000257134X / 9780002571340 First edition Hardcover New new Hardcover
340 pages. With plates & illustrations. Slight shelfwear. - Late one April evening in 1779 Martha Ray, the beautiful and accomplished mistress of the Earl of Sandwich, was shot at point blank range by James Hackman. She died instantly leaving behind a grief-stricken lover and and five small children. Hackman, a young soldier who had recently taken holy orders, then attempted suicide. He suffered a mere flesh wound. Arrested instantly, he was tried and hanged at Tyburn ten days later. It seemed an open and shut case, a tragic love triangle. By why had Hackman killed Ray? Who or what had led him to his crime? He claimed he suffered from love's madness, but his motives remained obscure. The city buzzed with the story as every hack journalist, Boswell included, sharpened his pen. Then, as now, crimes of passion were not rare and this story has all the ingredients of a great scandal. Martha Ray shared the bed of one of the most powerful and unpopular politicains of the day; Sandwich ranked amongst Georgian London's greatest libertines and Hackman was a minister of the Church of England. It was a sensation.
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