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The Damnation of John Donellan: A mysterious case of death and scandal in Georgian England

The Damnation of John Donellan: A mysterious case of death and scandal in Georgian England

by ElizabethCooke (Author)

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    Paperback 2011

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Synopsis

This is a shocking tale of greed and family betrayal. 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 hanged 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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 304
 Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 04 Aug 2011
ISBN 10: 184668482X
ISBN 13: 9781846684821
Book Overview: A shocking tale of greed and family betrayal

Media Reviews
I read this with great enjoyment. The author has produced a forensically detailed examination of a murder with a witty picture of the social world of the gentry at the end of the eighteenth century. Her eye and ear for the period are unerring. A delight. -- Judith Flanders * Author of 'The Invention of Murder' *
A masterpiece of well-founded suspicions based on first-hand evidence -- Iain Finlayson * The Times *
Highly readable ... gripping * Daily Express *
A fascinating account of a Georgian cause celebre ... just as Kate Summerscale did brilliantly in The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Cooke focuses on legal procedure and forensic evidence to gripping effect -- Kathryn Hughes * Mail on Sunday *
Author Bio
Under the name Elizabeth McGregor Elizabeth Cooke has been writing for over twenty years and has published ten novels: Little White Lies was televised by the BBC and in The Ice Child she turned to a historical theme for the first time with the story of the Franklin expedition. Elizabeth Cooke lives in Dorset.