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Buy Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories (Princeton Legacy Library): by Gates, Barbara (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low Reviews: 2.  · 10 Suicide by Volcano. On Febru, student Kiyoko Matsumoto took her life by jumping into the Mount Mihara crater, Japan, from the platform that allowed viewing of the molten lava below. She died from a combination of the fall and the lava itself, which ranged in temperature from 1,°F to 2,°F (°C to 1,°C).

Emily Shore's journal is the unique self-representation of a prodigious young Victorian woman. From July 5, , at the age of eleven, until J, two weeks before her death from consumption, Margaret Emily Shore recorded her reactions to the world around her. She wrote of political issues, natural history, her progress as a scholar and scientist, and the worlds of art and literature. Ulysses by Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron. Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. A Victorian Anthology, Chapter 1 of the author's Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories, which Princeton University Press published in It has been included in the Victorian Web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.

Size: 7 x 10 in. Buy This. Download Cover. Overview. When Viscount Castlereagh, leader of the House of Commons and architect of the Grand Alliance, committed suicide in , the coroner’s inquest could consider only two legal verdicts: insanity or self-murder. Public outrage greeted his burial in Westminster Abbey; the tradition lingered. Barbara Timm Gates is Professor of English at the University of Delaware. She is the author of Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories; Critical Essays on Charlotte Bronte; and many articles and reviews dealing with nineteenth-century literature and culture. 2 The Romantics exalted in fantasies of death in general and of suicide in particular. A fascinating analysis of the cultural implications of suicide in Victorian England may be found in Gates, Barbara T., Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories (Princeton: Princeton University Press, ).