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This book is the true story of the personal life of the famous singer known mainly as Catherine or Kate Hayes. It explores the relationship between her and the Bishop of Limerick, Edmond Knox who was the 7th son of the Earl of Ranfurly. It details the many lies, press censorship, falsification and misfiling of records which took place. There is too the truth about her hurried marriage to Wm. Bushnell and his subsequent murder in Biarritz where he was spending her fortune at the casino. His killer is named in my book with the evidence which might well have seen him end his days on the guillotine.
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Why did certain domestic murders fire the Victorian imagination? In her analysis of literary and cultural representations of this phenomenon across genres, Bridget Walsh traces how the perception of the domestic murderer changed across the nineteenth century and suggests ways in which the public appetite for such crimes was representative of wider social concerns. She argues that the portrayal of domestic murder did not signal a consensus of opinion regarding the domestic space, but rather reflected significant discontent with the cultural and social codes of behaviour circulating in society, particularly around issues of gender and class. Examining novels, trial transcripts, medico-legal do...
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