This two-part, eight-volume, reset edition draws together a range of sources from the early modern era through to the industrial age, to show the changes and continuities in responses to the social, political, legal and spiritual problems that self-murder posed.
Volume 4 17171750 PART II: 17501850 Newspapers: Reporting Suicide
Religious and Moral Periodical Essays Anon., Of Suicide (1732) Anon., The
Prompter (1736) James Mauclerc, Concerning Self-Murder (1745) Anon.,
Letter to the British Gazette (1728) Anon., Universal Spectator (1732)
Diabolical Influence Isaac Watts, Defense against the Temptation to
Self-Murther (1726) Anon., A Discourse upon Self-Murder (1732) Commentaries
on Lunacy and the Law Matthew Bacon, Felo de se (173666) Philanthropus,
To the Old Whig (1737) Philadelphus, To the Author of Reads Journal
(1731) Ralph Freeman, The Merits of the Craf s-Men Considerd (1738) Ralph
Freeman, The Daily Gazetteer (1739) Anon., Present State of the Republick of
Letters (1728) Suicide and Free Thought Anon., On Suicide (1732) Anon.,
Weekly Miscellany (1737) Anon., The Christian Free-T inker (1740) Simon
Berington, A Dialogue between the Gallows and a Freethinker (1744) M.
Deslandes, If There Be Valour in Suicide? (1745) Alberto Radicati, Count of
Passerano, A Philosophical Dissertation upon Death (1732) Socrates, Remarks
upon a Pamphlet Calld A Philosophical Dissertation On Death, &c. (1732) The
Case of Richard and Bridget Smith Anon., Gentlemans Magazine (1732) Anon.,
Domestick Occurrences in April 1732 (1732) Alexander Pope, One Thousand
Seven Hundred and T irty-Eight (1738) Cato Anon., The Free-T inker (1718)
Philadelphus, To the Author of Reads Journal (1731) John Henley, Cato
Condemnd (1730) John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, Catos Letters (1733)
Philalethes, Cato. Two Letters (1721) Anon., Universal Spectator (1734)
Samuel Catherall, Cato Major (1725) Duelling, Suicide and the Code of
Honour Anon., Self-Murther the Ef ect of Cowardice and Atheism (1728)
James Foster, Of Duels and Self-Murder (1744) Hercules Vinegar, pseud
[ Henry Fielding], and T. U., The Champion; or, The Evening Advertiser (1741)
Anon., Westminster Journal (1747) Anon., Suicide: or Self-Murder (1726)
Fanny Braddock and Gambling Anon., London Evening Post (1731) Anon., Of the
Unhappy Self-Murther of Mrs. Fanny Braddock at Bath (1731) [ Lydia Granger],
Modern Amours (1733) Anon., Mr Morgan (1736) Womens Suicide [ Sarah
Chapone], The Hardships of the English Laws in Relation to Wives (1735)
Septimus and Henry [ Baker], Universal Spectator (1730) [ Eliza Haywood],
Ladys Weekly Magazine (1747) Love Suicide and Literature Richard Gwinnet,
Pylades and Corinna (1732) Anon., The Fair Suicide (1733) Anon., The
Oxfordshire Tragedy; or, The Death of Four Lovers (c. 173663) Eliza Haywood,
The British Recluse (1721) Richard Savage, The Wanderer: A Vision (1729) The
English Malady from Other Perspectives Anon., Of Suicide or Self-Murder
(1732) 3William Lloyd, Letters f om a Moor at London to His Friend in Tunis
(1726) Anon., The German Spy (1740) Eustace Budgell, Liberty and Property
(1732) Zachary Pearce, A Sermon on Self-Murder (1736) John Tillard, Whether
the Heathens Encouraged, or Approved of Self-Murder? (1742) Editorial Notes
Mark Robson, Paul S Seaver, Kelly McGuire, Jeffrey Merrick, Daryl Lee