Delorme, Mathilde, 138, 143, 189
delusion, 2, 5, 49, 57, 103, 106, 116-17, 124, 133, 398
Cockburn’s views on, 97-9
crimes as way of attaining ‘justice’, 3, 94-5, 305, 315, 323, 383
Edmunds’ claims of pregnancy, 109, 110-11
erotomania, 5, 6, 8, 23, 61, 63-4, 65, 386-7, 393
Hadfield case, 91-2, 102, 103
hallucinative (lucid mania), 181
as at heart of monotheism, 313
John Bellingham case, 94-5
Kraepelin and, 332, 355
M’Naghten case, 95-6, 97, 98-9, 103
M’Naghten rules, 100-1, 105, 307, 333, 357, 388
need for prison programmes, 398
persecutory, 233, 303, 313, 320, 324, 386
rescue scenarios, 387, 389
stalking and, 387, 389, 390, 393-4
sudden/unexpected violence, 8, 18-19, 22, 106, 122
Thaw case and, 303, 305, 314, 315, 320, 321-3, 333, 337, 355, 362, 364
Thomas Erskine arguments on, 91-2, 93, 103
dementia praecox, 332
DeMille, Mrs, 282, 288, 290, 326
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders (DSM), 347, 354, 389
Dickens, Charles, 69, 76
Dietz, Park, 389
Diffendorf, Allen Ross, 329
divorce, 4, 171, 201, 240
legislation in France (1884), 203
trials, 17-18, 19, 50, 60-1, 77
Dix, Dorothy, 341
Doctorow, E.L., Ragtime (1975), 300, 373
doctors, medical
high status in Third Republic, 170-1
high status in US, 308
illicit passions for, 56-7, 59-61, 62, 65
see also Beard, Dr Charles Izard; mind-doctors
domestic violence, 8, 114-15, 161-2, 187, 194, 341, 382, 392
Doré, Gustave, 73
Dover, Kent, 41-2
Dowling, Victor J., 348, 357-8
Dreyfus, Captain Alfred, 238, 242, 301
Drummond, Edward, 96
Drysdale, George, 52-3
The Elements of Social Science (1861), 52, 53-4
Drysdale, Mary, 60
du Maurier, George, 231
Dubourg, Madame, 200
duels, 242, 243, 244
Dumaire, Hélène, 201-2
Dumas fils, Alexandre, 174, 178-9, 197, 203
La Dame aux Camélias, 139, 140
La Princesse Georges (play, 1872), 200
L’Affaire Clemenceau (1867), 200
Les Femmes qui tuent et les femmes qui votent (essay, 1880), 200-1
L’Homme-Femme (essay, 1872), 199-200
Earlswood Asylum in Reigate, 46, 81
Eddy, Mary Baker, 310
Edison, Thomas, 270
Edmunds, Ann Christiana (mother of Christiana), 16, 18, 20, 21, 31, 40, 44, 46, 47, 125
death of (1893), 48, 132
husband’s insanity and, 42-3, 81
memorial to Home Secretary, 116
visits to Broadmoor, 128, 130
as witness at Old Bailey, 42, 57, 81-2
Edmunds, Arthur (brother of Christiana), 42, 44, 46
Edmunds, Christiana
amorous letters to Dr Beard, 18, 19, 20-2, 25, 28, 35-8, 45, 57, 64, 79, 107, 122
arrest of, 22-3
Baron Martin’s letter to Home Secretary, 111-12, 116
Brighton Gazette and, 22, 25
at Broadmoor, 120, 123, 125-33
charge against rises to murder, 32, 33, 35
claim of pregnancy, 108-11, 123
cost of maintenance at Broadmoor, 125-6
death of (1907), 133
death penalty respited (24 January 1872), 119-21
demeanour and appearance during hearings and trial, 28, 32, 33, 34, 69-72, 80, 85, 105-6, 108
Dr Beard’s attempts to cool relationship, 18, 20, 21-2, 26, 37
as Dr Beard’s patient, 18, 57, 79, 110
erotomanic category and, 23, 64, 65
family background, 16, 39, 40-8, 81-2, 102, 111, 116, 119, 123
forces sweet into Emily Beard’s mouth, 18-19, 20, 35, 36, 69, 74, 80, 95, 102, 106, 110, 122, 123, 382
health of at time of poisonings, 57-8, 81, 82
‘hysterical paralysis’ (around 1853), 46, 49, 56-7, 81, 123
image of Victorian femininity and, 74-5, 122-3, 131
insanity of father, 42-5, 81, 111, 119
Inspector Gibbs’ investigation and, 15, 16, 22-3, 31, 74, 80
letter to the Home Office from (October 1880), 131-2
medical appraisal of for Home Secretary, 117-19
memorials and petitions to Home Secretary, 43, 47, 116-17, 123-4
at Newgate prison, 66-7, 82, 109, 116
obsessive love for Beard, 18-19, 35, 37, 53-4, 57, 59, 78-9, 103, 105-7, 110-11, 116-17, 122, 249, 387
obtaining of poison by, 26-7, 29-31, 36, 74, 81, 104
preliminary hearings (August-September 1871), 25-34, 35-8
remanded in custody, 27, 66
sends chocolates for chemical examination, 15-16, 21, 35-6
at Sidney Barker inquest, 15, 20, 21, 25, 35, 36, 37-8, 104, 122
status and social class issues, 45, 54, 64, 66-8, 75, 128
as ‘suggestible’, 229
as ‘victim of poisoning’, 15-16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 31
see also Old Bailey trial of Christiana Edmunds
Edmunds, Louisa Agnes (sister of Christiana), 42, 47, 119
Edmunds, Mary (sister of Christiana), 42, 47-8, 129, 132
Edmunds, William (brother of Christiana), 42, 47, 128
Edmunds, William (father of Christiana), 16, 40, 41-5, 119
Education Act (1870), 68
Eickemeyer Jr, Rudolf, 278-9
Eiffel Tower, 219
electrotherapies, 56
Ellis, Ruth, 112, 379-80
Ellis, Sir William Charles, 43-4
erotomania, 5, 6, 8, 23, 61, 63-4, 65, 386-7, 393
Erskine, Thomas, 91-2, 93, 103
Escudier, Leon, 179
Esquirol, J.-E. D., 6, 98, 121, 168, 169, 170
Mental Maladies (1838, 1845), 63-4, 65
eugenics, 310, 311
European Union, 395
Evans, Britton D., 311, 320-3, 324, 326-7, 329, 330-1, 332, 334, 344-6, 347, 354
evolutionary ideas, 83, 161, 310
execution, judicial
anxiety of liberal Victorians at, 113
appeal period after sentence, 113
death penalty eliminated for most property offences (1837), 113
electric chair, 270
in France, 232
of insane persons as immoral, 88, 89, 111-12, 121
of John Bellingham, 93
last in Britain (13 August 1964), 114
nineteenth-century statistics, 114
psychiatry and, 378, 397
public, 78, 113-14
reduction in number of capital offences, 113
for sheep-stealing, 121
suspension and abolition (1965, 1969), 113, 380
of women, 112, 113, 114, 380 exhibitionism, 169
expert psychiatric witnesses, 2, 3, 9, 10
calls for impartiality after Thaw trial, 344, 347, 377
at Christiana Edmunds trial, 82-7, 102, 103
difficulties of, 331-2, 375-8
at Eyraud-Bompard trial, 230-1
at Ferrers trial, 4
in French legal system, 168-9, 171-2, 181-8, 189, 224-7, 310
in Kitty Byron case, 249-50
at M’Naghten trial, 98-9
Ruth Ellis case and, 380
in US legal system, 307, 308-13, 314-16, 318-24, 326-7, 329-35, 337-8, 344-7, 348-9, 354, 363, 375, 380
Eyraud, Michel, 219-21, 222-3, 224, 227, 228, 232, 233
Fairfax, Beatrice, 340
family, 7
affects of madness in, 42, 44-7, 81-2, 102, 111, 116, 119, 123, 204, 311
domestic violence,
8, 114-15, 161-2, 187, 194, 341, 382, 392
hereditarian explanations of insanity, 42, 45-6, 81-2, 84, 86, 103-4, 111, 116, 119, 169, 183-4, 185, 204
idealized space of the home, 114-15, 251, 306, 336
see also childhood; marriage
family courts, 381-2
Farnham, Frank, 395
Fatal Attraction (Adrian Lyne, 1987), 394
Faure, President Félix, 162
La Fée des Bruyères (The Briar Fairy) (comic opera), 145
FelidaX, 217-18
feminism, 53, 199, 236, 251
slippage between madness and, 200-1
Fenayrou, Madame, 228
Ferncliff (Astor estate), 257
Ferrers, 4th Earl, 3-4
Ferrie, Albert Warren, 329
first trial of Harry Kendall Thaw
‘brain storm’ term, 322, 326-7, 329, 330-1, 334, 347, 357, 364
calls for impartial experts after, 344, 347, 377
commission of expert witnesses (‘sanity commission’), 310, 334-5
defence case, 305-6, 314-24, 327-8, 331-2, 336
‘dementia Americana’ diagnosis, 336, 337, 388
Evelyn Nesbit’s testimony, 279-80, 300, 301-2, 317-18, 325-6, 339, 341-3, 363
Evelyn’s demeanour and appearance during, 302, 304, 317-18, 325-6, 339, 341, 343
expert psychiatric witnesses, 307, 308, 309-13, 314-16, 318-23, 324, 326-7, 329-35, 337-8, 363
‘honour’ defence, 268, 292, 305-6, 336, 339 hypothetical questions during, 330, 331, 344-5, 377
jury fails to reach a verdict (12 April 1907), 338
jury sequestered by judge, 301
mother Mrs Thaw’s testimony, 327-8, 350
non-payment of defence fees, 303, 347, 363
press reporting of, 262, 300, 301-2, 304, 307, 324, 327, 334, 335, 339-43
pre-trial Grand Jury hearing, 300
prosecution case, 304-5, 325-31, 332-3, 336-7
rational ability to distinguish between right and wrong, 315, 319-20, 329-30, 332, 333, 334, 337-8
‘temporary insanity’ plea, 305-6, 307, 310, 313, 323, 324, 325, 328, 332-3, 334-5, 344
Thaw briefs the press during, 327, 334, 335
Thaw denies insanity, 303, 327
Thaw legal team, 302-4, 305
Thaw’s demeanour and appearance during, 304, 305, 317, 341, 342
as ‘the Trial of the Century’, 300, 301
use of Thaw money to influence, 304, 310, 340, 344, 364
verdicts open to jury, 336-7
First World War, 236, 244, 246, 312
Fish family in New York, 286
Fisher, John C., 274
Fishkill, New York State, 358, 360
Fitzgerald, Justice James, 301, 337-8
Flint, Austin, 312, 329, 330, 366, 367-8, 370-1
Follett, Sir William Webb, 97
food poisoning, 14, 15
Fordham University, New York, 311
forensic science, 217, 220
Forgerol, Hippolyte, 186
Foster, Jodie, 388-9, 391
France
belle époque, 133-4, 137-9, 167-8, 188, 193-4, 198, 235-6, 240-1
Catholic Church in, 134, 167, 171, 194, 203, 238, 240-1
courtly code of the homme galant, 143-4, 151-2, 155, 168, 180, 190, 191, 193, 387
crimepassionnel in, 36, 111, 134, 186-8, 193-4, 198, 199, 200, 201-5, 218, 235-6, 242, 245-6
growth of medico-legal specialization in Third Republic, 170-1, 251
honour in pre-WW 1 period, 242, 243-4, 397
Revolution (1789), 168, 170
separation of Church and state (1905), 194
women’s rights campaigns, 200-1
see also judicial and legal system, French; Paris
France, Anatole, 215, 216
Franco-Prussian War (1870), 169, 236
Freud, Anna, 382
Freud, Sigmund, 6, 46, 53, 59, 130, 188, 250, 309, 355, 388
Anna O (Bertha Pappenheim) and, 201
on criminality, 396-7
lectures at Clark University (1909), 308
Nancy school and, 225-6
on paranoia, 287-8
Friend, Adelaide Ann, 31
Friends’ Asylum in Frankford, Pennsylvania, 349
Gall, Franz-Joseph, 71
Galvanism, 56
Garanger, Monsieur, 221, 223
Garibaldi, Giuseppe, 17
Garland, James, 275, 277
Garrett, Isaac, 15, 26-7, 29-30, 31, 32, 79
Garvey, District Attorney, 304-5
gender
anxieties about, 5, 9, 71-2, 110-11, 130, 236
British criminal justice system and, 3, 4-5, 9, 40, 112, 113, 114-15
crime passionnel in France and, 187-8, 193-5, 198, 199, 200, 201-5, 235-6, 242, 245-6
in flagrante delicto mitigation and, 187
honour in pre-WW 1 France, 242, 243-4, 397
honour in pre-WWl USA, 267-8, 292, 336, 339
‘honour killings’, 384-5
mind-doctors’ diagnoses and, 1, 6, 49-51, 61, 63-4, 81-2, 83-4, 119, 172, 183, 250-1
poisoning as feminine crime, 25, 69, 114, 199
stalking and, 387-93
Victorian notions of masculinity, 114, 115, 339
see also women
Gentien, Robert
abortion issue and, 146, 147, 148, 164, 165, 166, 176, 177-8, 180
absences from Paris, 144-5, 148-9
‘ceremonial visits’ to Marie, 152-3
courtly code of the homme galant, 143-4, 151-2, 155, 180, 190, 191, 193, 387
courtship of Marie, 141-3, 175-6, 191
daughter’s wet-nurse and, 150, 151, 153, 178, 179
house in Rue Auber, 137, 158
letters to Marie, 141, 142, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 155
Marie’s pregnancy and, 146, 147, 148, 164-5
Marie’s threatened suicide scene, 154-5, 177
new mistress of, 137, 15A-7, 158
pays Marie a monthly sum, 155-6, 157, 158, 190
pre-trial inquiry (instruction) and, 164-6, 190
reaction to death of daughter, 153
refusal to acknowledge daughter, 150-2, 176-7, 178-9, 189
rooms in the Rue de Hanovre, 143
sends money to Marie, 145, 179-80
shooting of, 137-8, 139, 158-9, 175, 189-90
as trial witness, 177-8
tryst with Marie (16 October 1877), 142, 143, 164, 176
wounds, 164
George III, King, 91-2
George Washington University, 311
Georget, Étienne-Jean, 168-9
Georgetown University, 311
germ theory of disease, 185, 207, 308
Germany, 10, 171, 207, 236, 238, 347, 381
Gibbs, Inspector, 15, 16-17, 22-3, 27, 31, 34, 74, 80
Gibson, Charles Dana, 259
Gibson, Mr (surgeon to Newgate Prison), 84
Glaisyer and Kemp (Brighton chemists), 26-7, 29, 32
Glasgow Mechanics’ Institute, 95 Gleason, John B., 305, 314-15, 316
Glueck, Bernard, 375-6
Goldman, Emma, 300, 312
Goldstein, Joseph, 382
Goodrich, Edna, 275, 276
Goron, Marie-Franjois, 220
Gosette, Amy, 349
Gouffe, Toussaint-Augustin, 219-21, 223, 233
governesses, 70
Government Hospital for the Insane in Washington, 311
GPS tracking systems, 392
Grabbam, George W., 81
graphology, 156
Gras, Eugénie, 140
Gray, Effie, 72
Greeley-Smith, Nixola, 325, 341-2, 343
Grille, Magdeleine, 212-16, 217, 218
Gueydan, Berthe, 237-8, 239-40
Guillot, Adolphe, 159, 163, 166, 189, 190
Marie Bière and, 163-4
Gull, Sir William, 117-19, 126, 127, 128, 133
Gully, Dr James Manby, 61-3
Gump Jr, Frederick, 371-2
&nb
sp; Guy’s Hospital, London, 118
habeas corpus, 358, 360-8
Hadfield (or Hatfield), James, 91-2, 102, 103
Hale, Lord Justice, 88-9, 97-8, 105
Hamilton, Allan McLane, 309-10, 313, 329-30, 332-3, 334, 347, 367, 371
Hammond, Graeme M., 310-11, 312, 316, 331, 332, 334, 344
Hanwell Asylum in Middlesex, 43
Harnett, Charles, 302
Harrington, Sydney Cornish, 43, 47, 116-17
Harris, Ruth, Murders and Madness (1989), 194
Hartridge, Clifford W., 364
hatred, 7, 8, 106, 151, 154, 184, 288, 300, 357, 384- 5, 393
Havers, Mr Justice, 112, 380
Hickock, Dick, 378
Hinckley Jr, John, 388-91
Hindley, Myra, 219
Hippocratic oath, 171, 397
Hippodrome in London, 365
Hirsch, William, 312-13, 329, 330
Holland, 381
Homicide Act (1957), 113
homosexuality, 217, 380
Thaw’s penchant for boys, 286, 290, 291-2, 294, 350, 371-2
‘honour killings’, 384-5
Howard University, 311
Hume, David, Commentaries on the Law of Scotland, 98
Hummel, Abe, 297, 329
hydrotherapy, 181
hypnotic states
automatisms or altered states, 2, 6, 169, 181, 183, 208, 230, 244-5, 246, 250
Chambige trial and, 212-14, 216, 217-18
crime and, 6, 169, 210, 211, 212-14, 216, 217-18, 219, 223-30
criminal responsibility and, 169, 183, 210, 219
Eyraud-Bompard case, 219, 223-30
fear of, 231-4
Harry Thaw and, 363-4
Henriette Caillaux case and, 244-5
hysteria and, 209, 210, 211, 219, 226
modern mass public and, 207, 219
Nancy school and, 210-11, 219, 225-6, 227, 228-30, 231, 232-3
Paris school and, 219, 224-5, 226-7, 230-1
as popular spectacle, 56, 208, 209, 232
shooting of Tourette and, 233-4
sleepwalking (somnambulist) states, 169, 183, 210, 223, 226, 227
theatrical performances of banned in France (1892), 232
therapeutic, 211
hypochondriacal melancholy, 118, 184
hysteria, 55-6, 58, 63, 84, 119, 249-50
Charcot and, 209-10
Christiana Edmunds and, 46, 49, 56-7, 81, 123, 127
double personality (‘doublement de la vie’), 217-18, 244-5, 246
electrotherapies, 56
French diagnoses of, 188
Freud’s ‘conversion hysteria’, 188
grande hystérie, 209, 225
hypnotic states and, 209, 210, 211, 219, 226
neurological analyses, 51-2, 53-4, 55, 209-10, 225
petite hystérie, 204, 227
sexual desire and, 6, 52, 53, 61, 62
treatments for, 55-8, 61-2
uterine or ovarian theorists, 49-51, 55
imitative behaviour, 210, 217, 299
infanticide, 4-5, 126, 170
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