The Disappearance Of Maria Glenn

Author : Naomi Clifford
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473863325
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Disappearance of Maria Glenn written by Naomi Clifford and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2016-05-24 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A kidnapping, an elopement gone wrong, and a sensational nineteenth-century trial are only the beginning of this Regency mystery. England, 1817. Barrister George Tuckett wakes to discover that his sixteen-year-old niece Maria Glenn, reputed heiress to West Indian sugar plantations, is missing. It seems she has been abducted by the Bowditches, a local farming family, who intend to force her to marry one of their sons. While Maria is ultimately rescued, the investigation that follows uncovers a complex and disturbing web of lies. At a drama-filled trial that is the talk of the country, four are sentenced to prison. When a cabal of powerful people begin a campaign to destroy Maria’s testimony, her supporters fall away and she is openly vilified. Her enemies have her arrested for perjury, and soon she is forced to flee into exile. Yet the story of conspiracy and deception does not end there, as Maria and her uncle are to suffer one final and devastating betrayal . . . Deftly exploring the details of a case that had many in England taking sides, The Disappearance of Maria Glenn is an intriguing fictionalized account of a tawdry tale that will entice readers of both Regency romance and historical mystery.

Author : Naomi Clifford
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473863406
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Murder of Mary Ashford written by Naomi Clifford and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical true crime comes to life with this fictionalized account of a nineteenth-century murder that changed the course of British legal history. England, 1817. In the small hours of May 27th, a young servant girl from the village of Erdington left a party in the company of a man with a bad reputation. A few hours later, Mary Ashford’s lifeless body was found drowned in a pond. Despite a seemingly solid alibi, Abraham Thornton is soon on trial for his life—only to be acquitted at the direction of the judge. Public opinion across the country is outraged, with everyone convinced that a murderer has evaded the gallows. In a last-ditch effort to find justice, Mary’s brother uses an archaic legal process to prosecute Thornton again, only to find himself confronted with an extraordinary challenge. In court, Thornton throws down a gauntlet and demands his legal right to trial by combat . . . and the outcome will alter the course of English legal history. A many-layered fictionalized account, The Murder of Mary Ashford examines the particulars of this famous case while exploring the birth of forensic investigation, the meaning of sexual consent, and the struggle of a modern state to emerge from its medieval heritage.

Author : Naomi Clifford
Publisher : Pen & Sword History
ISBN 13 : 9781473863347
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and the Gallows 1797-1837 written by Naomi Clifford and published by Pen & Sword History. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "131 women were hanged in England and Wales between 1797 and 1837, executed for crimes including murder, baby-killing, theft, arson, sheep-stealing and passing forged bank notes. Most of them were extremely poor and living in desperate situations. Some were mentally ill. A few were innocent. And almost all are now forgotten, their voices unheard for generations. Mary Morgan – a teenager hanged as an example to others. Eliza Fenning – accused of adding arsenic to the dumplings. Mary Bateman – a ‘witch’ who duped her neighbours out of their savings. Harriet Skelton – hanged for passing counterfeit pound notes in spite of efforts by Elizabeth Fry and the Duke of Gloucester to save her. Naomi Clifford has unearthed the events that brought these ‘unfortunates’ to the gallows and has used contemporary newspaper accounts and documents to tell their stories"--

Author : George Lowman Tuckett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Sequel to A Narrative of the Conspiracy for the Forcible Abduction of Miss Maria Glenn, &c. &c. &c written by George Lowman Tuckett and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Flynn
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765319104
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eifelheim written by Michael Flynn and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-11-13 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The alien world of medieval Europe lives again, transformed by the physics of the future, by a winner of the Heinlein Award Over the centuries, one small town in Germany has disappeared and never been resettled. Tom, a historian, and his theoretical physicist girlfriend Sharon, become interested. By all logic, the town should have survived. What's so special about Eifelheim? Father Dietrich is the village priest of Eifelheim, in the year 1348, when the Black Death is gathering strength but is still not nearby. Dietrich is an educated man, and to his astonishment becomes the first contact person between humanity and an alien race from a distant star, when their ship crashes in the nearby forest. It is a time of wonders, in the shadow of the plague. Flynn gives us the full richness and strangeness of medieval life, as well as some terrific aliens. Tom and Sharon, and Father Deitrich have a strange destiny of tragedy and triumph in Eifelheim, the brilliant science fiction novel by Michael Flynn.

Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1188 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the Year ... written by Edmund Burke and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 1188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 942 pages
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Download or read book The Annual Register written by and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edmund Burke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 952 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Annual Register written by Edmund Burke and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 952 pages
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Download or read book The Annual Register of World Events written by and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 942 pages
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