The Damnation of John Donellan
- Authors
- Cooke, Elizabeth
- Publisher
- Profile Books
- Tags
- history , mystery
- ISBN
- 9781846684821
- Date
- 2011-08-04T00:00:00+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. And 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.