The History of Suicide in England, 1650-1850, Part I Vol 4

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.

Mark Robson, Paul S Seaver, Kelly McGuire, Jeffrey Merrick, Daryl Lee

Volume 4 1717-1750 PART II: 1750-1850 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' (1736-66) Philanthropus, 'To the Old Whig' (1737) Philadelphus, 'To the Author of Read's Journal' (1731) Ralph Freeman, 'The Merits of the Craf s-Men Consider'd' (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 Call'd A Philosophical Dissertation On Death, &c.' (1732) The Case of Richard and Bridget Smith Anon., Gentleman's 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 Read's Journal' (1731) John Henley, Cato Condemn'd (1730) John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, Cato's 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) Women's Suicide [Sarah Chapone], The Hardships of the English Laws in Relation to Wives (1735) Septimus and Henry [Baker], Universal Spectator (1730) [Eliza Haywood], Lady's 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. 1736-63) 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