[The Damnation of John Donellan 01] • A Mysterious Case of Death and Scandal in Georgian England
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- Authors
- Cooke, Elizabeth
- Publisher
- Profile Books(GB)
- Tags
- non-fiction , history
- Date
- 2011-10-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 4.06 MB
- Lang
- en
In August 1780 Sir Theodosius Boughton, a dissolute Old Etonian twenty-year-old and heir to a Warwickshire fortune, died in painful convulsions after taking his medicine. The following year after an inquest and trial which became a cause celebre, his brother-in-law, Captain John 'Diamond' Donellan, Irish soldier of fortune and man about town, was tried for his murder. The trial was a shambles. Was Donellan guilty? Based on extensive research and the engrossing trial transcripts Elizabeth Cooke's book shows the dark and violent underside of the society of Mansfield Park.