A Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century

2004. Brewer, John. A Sentimental Murder: Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2004]. x, 340 pp. Hardcover fine in near-fine dust jacket. Internally clean. $15. * Contents: Spring 1779; The Press: A Case of Sentimental Murder; The Killer as Victim: James Hackman; Missing Stories: Lord Sandwich and the Making of a Libertine; Missing Stories: Martha Ray and the Life of the Mistress; Love and Madness, a Story Too True; Wordsworth and the Doctors; The Nineteenth Century; The Twentieth Century; History and Telling Stories.