â We are a trading community, a commercial people. Murder is doubtless a very shocking offence, nevertheless as what is done is not to be undone, let us make our money out of it.â Punch
â We are a trading community, a commercial people. Murder is doubtless a very shocking offence, nevertheless as what is done is not to be undone, let us make our money out of it.â Punch
Judith Flanders is the author of critically acclaimed 'A Circle of Sisters' - a biography of Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynder and Louisa Baldwin - which was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award; the bestselling 'The Victorian House - Domestic Life from Childbirth to Deathbed' and the highly acclaimed 'Comsuming Passions'. She is a frequent contributor to the 'Daily Telegraph', the 'Guardian', the 'Evening Standard', and the 'Times Literary Supplement'. She lives in London.
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1 Imagining Murder 2 Trial by Newspaper 3 Entertaining Murder 4 Policing Murder 5 Panic 6 Middle-Class Poisoners 7 Science, Technology and the Law 8 Violence 9 Modernity
