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Murder by Candlelight

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by Michael Knox Beran


  227 “the fury”: Macnaghten, Days of My Years, op. cit., 61.

  229 “quite sure”: Arthur Symons, The Symbolist Movement in Literature (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1919), 5.

  230 “away from Whitechapel”: The Letters of Henry James, ed. Percy Lubbock (New York: Scribner’s Sons, 1920), I, 141.

  230 “detestable summer”: Ibid., 140.

  231 “Mr. Jones”: Joseph Conrad, Victory (Garden City: Doubleday, 1915), 81–82, 90–93, 95–96.

  234 “to be curious”: De Quincey, “On Murder,” op. cit., 10.

  234 Stephen on murder: Leslie Stephen, “The Decay of Murder,” in The Cornhill Magazine (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1869), XX, 722–733.

  236 Wilson on murder: Edmund Wilson, “Why Do People Read Detective Stories?” (October 14, 1944), in Wilson, Classics and Commercials: A Literary Chronicle of the Forties (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1950), 231–37.

  Index

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  A

  Ablass, William, 195

  Adolphus, John, 108–109, 165–166

  “Adventure of Reigate Square, The,” 238

  Aeschylus, 238

  Agamemnon, 238

  Age of Reason, xv, xvii

  Ainsworth, W. Harrison, 176

  American Psycho, 225

  Anatomy Act, 77

  Anderson, Constable, 192

  Antiquary, The, 194

  Arabin, Dean, 213

  Armstrong, Major, xi

  Arnold, Matthew, 80

  Ashburnham, Emma, 217

  Ashburton, Lady, 134

  Austen, Jane, xvi

  Avenger, The, 202

  B

  Bacon, Francis, 239

  Bagehot, Walter, 201

  Baldwin, Constable, 151–152, 165

  Balfour, Arthur, 157

  Balzac, Honoré de, 37–40, 87, 230

  Banks, Sir Joseph, 213

  Barclay, Mr., 82

  Baring, Lady Harriet, 134

  Baring-Gould, Sabine, 198–199

  Barrett, Michael, 180

  Barry, Madame du, 121

  Baudelaire, Charles, 183

  Beaumont, Barber, 21, 24–25

  Beaumont, Sir George, 161

  Beckford, William, xvi, xxi

  Bentley’s magazine, 80

  Bichel, Andreas, 199

  Birtwhistle, Dr. John, 77

  Blackstone, William, 111

  Blake, William, 80

  Blanchard, Mrs., 79, 83, 85–86, 90

  Blandy, Miss, 119

  Blount, Sir Henry, 180

  Bonaparte, Napoleon, 135

  Bonar, Thomson, 158

  Book of Were-Wolves, 198

  Borowitz, Albert, 5

  Borrow, George, 7, 38

  Bow Street Runners, 36, 64, 78

  Brew, Mrs., 24

  Bride of Lammermoor, The, 63

  Broderick, Mr., 66

  Brosses, Charles de, 38

  Brothers Karamazov, The, 230

  Brown, Hannah, 82–89, 96, 101, 104–105, 109, 112, 126–128, 131, 134

  Brown, Michael, 97

  Brown, Mr., 82, 88

  Browne, Sir Thomas, 107, 211

  Browning, Robert, 5

  Bruton, Clara, 220

  Brutus, 205

  Buddha, 111

  Bundy, Ted, 130

  Bunyan, John, 84

  Burke, Edmund, xvii, 203, 206

  Bush, Sarah, 106

  Buswell, Harriet, 220

  Byron, Lord George Gordon, xviii–xix, xxi, 9–10, 28, 66, 114, 171, 206

  C

  Calcraft, Mr., 118, 123–124, 179, 181

  Caligula, xvi

  Canning, Prime Minister George, 140

  Capital Punishment Amendment Act, 180

  Capote, Truman, 130

  Carlyle, Jane Welsh, 131–135. See also Welsh, Jane Baillie

  Carlyle, Thomas, xiii, xvii, xxi, 22, 27–28, 40–43, 67, 75, 79–80, 92–93, 99, 123–125, 129–135, 139, 172, 219, 238–239

  Carnac, Mrs., 10

  Carr, Mr., 142–143, 145

  Carver, Rev. Mr., 179

  Casanova, Giacomo, xviii

  Castle of Otranto, The, xv

  Catnach, James, 75

  Cato, 205

  Chapman, Annie, 226

  Charteris, Colonel Francis, xvi

  Chateaubriand, François-René de, xviii

  Chislehurst murder, 158

  Christabel, xix, 63

  Christie, Agatha, 154, 237

  Christie, John, 195, 196

  Chudleigh, Miss, 10

  classic murders, xi–xii, xv–xvi

  Cobbett, William, 5

  Coke, Sir Edward, 17, 31

  Coldbath Fields Prison, 180, 195

  Coleridge, Mr. Justice, 108

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, xvii–xix, 18, 41, 63, 171, 196, 206

  Collins, Wilkie, 235

  Coltman, Mr. Justice, 108

  Commentaries on the Laws of England, 111

  Confessions of a Murderer, 19

  Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 18, 43, 202, 210

  Confidential Agent, The, 195

  Coningsby, 171

  Conrad, Joseph, 231

  Cooney, Mary, 115

  Cope, Mr., 178

  Corney, Mrs., 87–88

  Cotton, Rev. Dr. Horace, 116, 124, 131–132

  Courvoisier, François Benjamin, 141–166, 168–181

  Cox, James, 214

  Creevey, Thomas, 9

  Crime and Punishment, 230

  Crippen, Dr. Hawley Harvey, xi–xii

  Critchley, T. A., 195

  Crockford, Bill, 8

  Croft, Sir John-Frederick, 213

  Cromwell, Oliver, 130–131

  Cruikshank, George, xi

  Curley, Martha, 209

  D

  Dahmer, Jeffrey, 130

  Dante, 219, 227, 238

  Dashwood, Sir Francis, xviii

  Davis, Evan, 83, 88–89, 127

  Davis, Hannah, 83, 88–89, 127

  De Quincey, Thomas, xiii, xxi, 18–19, 27, 30, 43–44, 48–51, 54–55, 75, 86–87, 91–93, 172, 185–189, 191–207, 211, 214, 221, 223, 230, 233–239

  “Decay of Murder, The,” 234

  Deserted Village, The, 79

  Dickens, Charles, xi, 3, 5, 80, 86–87, 173

  Disraeli, Benjamin, 10, 171

  Dodson, Miss, 14, 16, 21–23

  Donne, John, 178

  Doré, Gustave, 80

  Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 115, 121, 230

  Doubleday, Mr., 141

  Douro, Lord, 14

  Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan, 238

  Duchess of Bedford, 140

  Duchess of Kent, 103

  Duke of Bedford, 139–140, 163

  Duke of Cumberland, 158

  Duke of Wellington, 14

  Dumollard, Martin, 199

  Dyce, Alexander, xi

  E

  Eddowes, Catherine, 226

  Either/Or, 132

  Eliot, T. S., 196, 203, 224

  Ellenborough, Lord, 110

  Elliot, Tom “Squire,” 7–8, 16, 22–23

  Ellis, Bret Easton, 225

  Ellis, James, 168

  Ellison, Ralph, 208

  Elsgood, Dr., 151

  Elstree murder, 68

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 93

  Ensor, Joseph, 20–21

  Epipsychidion, xxi

  Evans, Hugh, 198

  F

  Farr, Sarah, 105

  Fatal Effects of Gambling, The, 26

  Fector, John Minet, 141, 161

  Feltham, George, 95–97

  Féval, Paul, 235

  Field, Mr., 35

  Fielding, Henry, 36, 78, 160

  “Fight, The,” 17

  First Love, The, 132

  Flaubert, Gustave, 37, 40

  Fox, Charles James, 14r />
  Fox, Henry, 14

  Frankenstein, xx

  Fraser’s Magazine, 179

  French Revolution, The, 92–93

  Froude, James Anthony, 132–135

  G

  Gabe, Dr. J. R., 227

  Gale, Sarah, 98, 105–110, 123, 126, 135. See also Wiston, Sarah

  gallows, 34–35, 69, 109–110, 115–124, 135, 178–181

  Gay, Maria, 79–81, 87

  Gay, William, 79–81, 84–86, 88, 90, 95

  George, Prince, xii

  George III, King, 158

  George IV, King, xii

  Gibbon, Edward, 92, 185, 203

  Gill’s Hill tragedy, 68

  Girdwood, Dr. Gilbert Finlay, 74, 78, 97, 109

  Gissing, George, 229

  Godwin, Mary, xviii, xx. See also Shelley, Mary

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 114, 119

  Goldsmith, Oliver, 79

  Gothic period, xii–xxi, 62–64, 154, 233–239

  Gowen, James, 187, 189

  Granville, Lord, 8

  Greenacre, James, 95–118, 122–135, 165

  Greene, Graham, 195

  Grenier, Jean, 198

  Greville, Charles, 156, 160–161, 163

  Grey, Lord, 75

  Grimwood, Eliza, 216

  Guérin, Eugénie de, 144

  Guyon, Madame de, 114

  H

  Habington, William, 153

  Hall, James, 181

  Hamann, Johann Georg, xvii

  Hamlet, 196, 234

  Hannell, Mary, 141, 145–150, 162

  Harrington, Bridget, 192–193

  Harrington, John, 57, 64

  Hawksworth, Mrs., 88

  Hazlitt, William, xviii, 17

  Heart of Darkness, 231

  Heath, Mrs., 69

  Heward, Mr., 59

  Hickman, Tom, 15, 16

  Himmelfarb, Gertrude, 133

  Hitler, Adolf, 130

  Hobbes, Robert, 147

  Holloway, Celia, 75

  Holloway, John William, 75

  Hook, Mr., 68

  Howe, Jeffrey, 75, 106

  Hunt, Joe, 24–29, 33–37, 43–45, 48, 53, 58–66, 69

  Hunt, Leigh, xxi, 132

  I

  Ibsen, Henrik, 202

  Idiot, The, 115

  In Cold Blood, 130

  Inmost Light, The, 217

  Irving, Edward, 41

  J

  Jack Sheppard, 176

  Jack the Ripper, 216, 226, 230, 233, 238

  Jackson, Emma, 209–210

  James, Henry, 37, 224, 230

  James, P. D., 195

  James, William, 230

  Jewell, Margaret, 187–189

  Jewsbury, Geraldine, 132–134

  Johnson, Ben, 76

  Johnson, Dr. Samuel, xvi, 86, 203, 216, 237

  K

  Keats, John, 65, 67, 171

  Kelly, Mary Jane, 226, 227

  Kierkegaard, Søren, 132

  King Lear, 234

  Knox, Dr., 77

  Krafft-Ebing, Richard von, 202, 207, 220–221

  L

  Lamb, Charles, xiii, 93, 171, 203, 235

  Lamb, Lady Caroline, 10, 66

  Lamb, William, 65–66

  Lamentation and Confession of John William Holloway, The, 75

  Latham, Mr., 151, 162

  Laurence, Samuel, 131

  Lavengro, 38

  Law, Charles Ewan, 110

  Lay of the Last Minstrel, The, 63

  Le Père Goriot, 87

  Le Rouge et le Noir, 37

  Leigh, Anne, 213

  Leigh, Augusta, xviii

  Leigh, Sir Roger Holt, 213

  Lemon, Mr., 14–15

  Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 197

  Lewis, Paul, 120–121

  Lives of the Saints, 37

  Llewellyn, Dr., 206

  Lloyd, Charles, 54, 206

  Lockhart, John Gibson, 68

  Lockwood, Lady Julia, 161

  London Literary Gazette, The, 12

  London Magazine, 18, 30, 66

  Londonderry, Lady, 9

  Lost Illusions, 39, 40

  Louis XV, King, 120–121

  Louis XVI, King, 118, 123

  Lytton, Edward Bulwer, 5

  M

  Macaulay, Lord Thomas Babington, 5

  Macbeth, 48–51, 236

  Machen, Arthur, 217

  Macnaghten, Sir Melville, 225–228

  Maid Marian, 20

  Malone, Miss, 32

  Mancer, Sarah, 141–147, 149–152, 162

  Manfred, xix

  Mansfield, Lord, 168

  Manson, Charles, 130

  Marr, Celia, 187–189, 196, 202

  Marr, Timothy, 187–190, 202

  Marshall, Stephen, 106

  Masson, David Mather, 67–68

  Maul and the Pear Tree, The, 195

  Mayfair murder, 137, 140, 154–156, 159, 171

  Melbourne, Lord, 153–155

  Merezhkovsky, D. S., 194

  Middleton, Thomas, xiii

  Milton, John, 52, 73, 229, 238

  Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, 63

  Mitchell, Harriet, 212–213

  Moors murders, 237

  “Mr. Fielding’s People,” 36, 78

  Mulind, Catharine, 209

  Murray, William, 168

  My Relations with Carlyle, 133

  Mysteries of Udolpho, The, xvi

  N

  Neale, Cornelius, 158

  Neate, William, 17

  Neill, Constable, 206

  Nero, 206

  New Prison, 107

  Newgate Calendar, 37, 176, 181

  Newgate prison, 28, 69, 104, 107–111, 117–120, 135, 160, 163, 173, 178–181

  Newman, Cardinal, xvii

  Newman, John Henry, 87

  Nicholls, Mr., 39, 43, 58–61, 64

  Nichols, Mary Ann “Polly,” 206, 225, 226

  Nicholson, Philip, 158

  Nietzsche, Friedrich, 51, 115

  Northanger Abbey, xvi

  “Notes from the Pocket-Book of a Late Opium-Eater,” 30

  Noyes, Miss, 23

  O

  Old Bailey, 69, 108, 119, 164

  Oliver Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches, 130

  Oliver Twist, 80, 173

  Olney, Mr., 188–190

  “On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts,” 185, 234

  “On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth,” 30, 48

  Orwell, George, xi–xii, 195

  Othello, 234

  Ovid, 205

  P

  Palmer, Dr. William, xi

  Palmer, Elizabeth, 198

  Paradise Lost, 238

  Park, Sir James Alan, 65–67

  Parke, Mr. Baron, 165, 170

  Payne, George, 9

  Peacock, Mr., 20

  Pearse, Inspector, 159

  Peel, Sir Robert, 69, 75, 78

  Pemberton, Mrs., 215

  Penny, John, 181

  Pepys, Samuel, 30, 31

  Phillimore, Mr., 36

  Phillips, Charles, 165–170

  Pilgrim’s Progress, The, 85

  Piolaine, Charlotte, 166–170, 177

  Planck, Max, 221

  Plato, 132, 202, 205, 219, 238

  Plutarch, 176

  Poe, Edgar Allan, 224

  Polidori, John William, xviii–xix

  Pope, Alexander, xvi, 71

  Priapus, xviii

  Priest, Ann, 212–215

  Princess Casamassima, The, 37

  Probert, Betsy, 23, 43, 47–49, 52, 55–56, 62, 69

  Probert, Bill, 23–26, 29, 33–36, 42–49, 52–64, 66, 69

  Psychopathia Sexualis, 202, 207

  Q

  Qualtrough, R. M., 195

  Quarles, Francis, 164

  R

  Radcliffe, Ann, xvi, xix, xxi, 62

  Radcliffe, Houstonne (The Venerable), 212

  Radcliffe, Houstonne John, 212–2
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  Radcliffe, Rev. John, 213

  Radcliffes of Leigh Lancashire, A Family Memorial, 215

  Radlett murder, 68

  Rais, Gilles de, 199

  Rann, John “Sixteen-String Jack,” 36

  Recollections of the Lake Poets, 172

  Reminiscences, 132

  Rexworthy, Mr., 7–8, 16, 26, 28, 31, 34

  Reynolds, John Hamilton, 67

  Ripper murders, 183, 225–226, 233, 238

  Road to Wigan Pier, The, 195–196

  Rollet, Jacques, 199

  Romantic Age, xi–xxi, 62–63, 154, 233–239

  Romasanta, Manuel, 199

  Rose, Constable, 151–152

  Rose, David, 198

  Roughead, William, 126, 194

  Roulet, Jacques, 198

  Ruskin, John, 42, 207

  Russell, Lord John, 111, 147, 153, 155

  Russell, Lord William, 139–155, 158–162, 168, 171–177

  Russell, Lord Wriothesley, 163

  Ruthven, George, 64

  S

  Sade, Marquis de, xvi

  Sanson, Charles-Henri, 121

  Santayana, George, 33

  Sartor Resartus, xvii, 134

  Sayers, Dorothy, 154, 237

  Schopenhauer, Arthur, 113–117

  Scott, Lady, 62

  Scott, Sir Walter, xiii, xvii, 62–64, 67–68, 129, 171, 194, 234

  Scribe, Eugène, 132

  Selden, John, 17

  Select Trials at the Sessions-House of the Old-Bailey, 119

  Sellis, Joseph, 158

  Selwyn, George, 120

  Seymour-Conway, Francis Charles, 10

  Shakespeare, William, xv, 16, 47, 49–50, 57, 76, 137, 149, 191, 196, 198, 234, 236–237

  Shelburne, Lord, 14

  Shelley, Mary, xviii, xx, 206

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe, xviii–xxi, 8, 171, 206

  Sheppard, Jack, 119

  Simmonds, Miss, 100

  Skeats, Walter William, xi

  Smith, Captain, 224

  Smith, Emma, 225

  Smith, Perry, 130

  Sophocles, 238

  Southey, Robert, 196

  Specimens of English Dramatic Poets Who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare, xiii

  “Spring-Heeled Jack,” 80

  Steadman, William, 24

  Stendhal, xviii, 37

  Stephen, Leslie, 234–236

  Stillwell, Kitty, 192–193

  Strachey, Lytton, 38

  Stride, Elizabeth, 226

  Stumpp, Peter, 199

  Swift, Jonathan, 156

  Sybil, 171

  Symmachus, 223

  T

  Tabram, Martha, 225

  Tacitus, 206

  Tancred, 171

  Taylor, Grace, 198

  Taylor, Jeremy, 99

  Tedman, Inspector, 152, 154–155

  Tetsall, Mr., 24

  Teufelsdröckh, Diogenes, xvii

  Thackeray, William Makepeace, 5, 10, 179, 180

  Thanet, Lord, 8

  Thoreau, Henry David, 221

  Thornton, Mr., 90

  “Three Memorable Murders,” 172, 185, 202, 207

  Thurtell, Jack, 1, 6–8, 12–39, 41–59, 61–67, 69, 105, 120, 185, 217

 

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