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, 14
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
15
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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