Dr Pritchard the Poisoning Adulterer - Couverture souple

Rhodes, W.M

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0995775257 ISBN 13 : 9780995775251

Editeur : Lah-Di-Dah Publishing., 2017

Synopsis

In the spring of 1865, Mary Jane Pritchard lay ill in her Glasgow home. Her sickness was persistent yet perplexing: bouts of violent vomiting followed by brief, deceptive recoveries. Her husband, Dr Edward William Pritchard, attended her constantly. He prepared her medicines himself. He reassured visitors that her constitution had always been delicate.

At first, there seemed to be nothing extraordinary in her decline. Victorian medicine offered many explanations for a woman’s frailty. But within the household, small observations began to accumula inte. A servant noticed patterns. A consulting physician grew uneasy. Improvement seemed often to follow absence; relapse followed intervention.

When Mary Jane died, grief was public and immediate. Suspicion moved more slowly.

Charged with poisoning his wife and mother-in-law with antimony, Pritchard stood trial in a case that exposed the uneasy authority of the nineteenth-century medical profession. How could illness be distinguished from its imitation? How easily could trust be manipulated behind the façade of respectability?


Drawing on contemporary reports, testimony, and archival records, Wendy Rhodes reconstructs the domestic world in which the crimes unfolded — the rhythms of the household, the shifting loyalties, the unspoken doubts — bringing to life a case that blurred the boundary between illness and intention.

This is a work of historical true crime told with narrative depth: a study of ambition, respectability, and the quiet mechanics of deception in Victorian Scotland.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Wendy was born in Yorkshire in the late 1950's; She moved to the coastal town of Filey in North Yorkshire with her husband and family in the middle 1990's. She graduated from The Open University with a degree in English Literature and later went on to graduate from Teesside University with a Masters Degree in Creative Writing. She now lives in Andalusia with her husband, dog, and four cats. Wendy has had many jobs from working in a library, a bank, a financial advisor, and former founder of Norwich Union Direct, to owning a Bar/Restaurant with her husband.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lah-Di-Dah Publishing.
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0995775257
• ISBN 13: 9780995775251
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 309
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