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Authors: Michael Knox Beran
| 139 | throat was cut : Unless otherwise noted, all facts and quotations concerning The Murder in Mayfair have their source in (1) the transcript of the Trial of François Benjamin Courvoisier, June 1840, Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 6.0, 17 April 2011) (t18400615-1629) or (2) Lord William Russell (1767â1840), www.historyofparliamentonline.org / volume/1820-1832/member/russell-lord-william-1767-1840. |
| 140 | “adequate for” : Diary of John Adolphus, quoted in Yseult Bridges, Two Studies in Crime (London: Hutchinson, 1959), 65. |
| 144 | “Sovereignty of the People” : The Spectator (January 28, 1837), op. cit., X, 74. |
| 151 | towel and bedclothes : Tedman maintained that he had removed the towel from Lord William's face. His memory might have misled him; Dr. Elsgood might have replaced the towel; or Tedman may have wished others to believeâmay have wished himself to believeâthat the police had been on the scene before the surgeon. Young, Mr. Latham's butler, a presumably disinterested witness, distinctly “saw the napkin taken off his lordship by Mr. Elsgood, the surgeon.” |
| 154 | “a damned bore” : The Greville Memoirs (London: Longmans, Green, 1905â07), III, 126. |
| 154 | “most shocking” : The Letters of Queen Victoria , ed. A. C. Benson and Viscount Esher (New York: Longmans, Green, 1907), 278. |
| 155 | “The bed was” : Ibid., 279. |
| 156 | “Visionary servants” : Greville Memoirs , op. cit., IV, 293. |
| 157 | “wholly unaware” : Edward Harold Begbie, The Mirrors of Downing Street (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1921), 67. |
| 1 60â161 | “The circumstances” : Greville Memoirs , op. cit., IV, 293. |
| 161 | “no evidence” : Ibid., 294. |
| 161 | “He is rather” : Ibid., 293â94. |
| 163 | Lord Wriothesley Russell : Lord William Russell's daughter, Eliza Laura Henrietta, married her first cousin, Lord Wriothesley Russell. |
| 163 | obsequies of Lord William : The Tablet , 16 May 1840. |
| 164 | “very pale” : Annual Register (1840) (London: Rivington, 1841), 230. |
| 165 | “Not guilty” : Ibid., 230. |
| 165 | “for they imagined” : Bridges, Two Studies in Crime , op. cit., 73. |
| 166 | “heavily in favour” : Ibid., 78. |
| 166 | “he appeared” : The Times , 20 June 1840. |
| 166 | “a communication of the facts” : Bridges, Two Studies in Crime , op. cit., 93. |
| 166 | “Let us have” : The Times , 20 June 1840. |
| 166 | “Call Charlotte” : Bridges, Two Studies in Crime , op. cit., 93. |
| 166 | “the greatest composure” : Ibid., 93â94. |
| 168 | “Tell Mr. Phillips” : Punch , op. cit., XVII, 223. |
| 170 | “Of course, then” : The Gentleman's Magazine (November 1850) (John Bowyer Nichols, 1850), XXXIV, 524. |
| 170 | “extremely eloquent” : Ballantine, Some Experiences , op. cit., 78. |
| 171 | Disraeli: Michael Knox Beran, “Disraeli's Ghost,” The Claremont Review of Books , Summer 2012, 35â37. |
| 172 | “absolute martyrdom” : Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Boston: Ginn, 1901), xlviii. |
| 172 | “scheme of Courvoisier” : Thomas De Quincey, “Three Memorable Murders” (1854), in De Quincey, The Note-Book of an English Opium-Eater and Miscellaneous Essays (Boston: James Osgood, 1873), 62. |
| 173 | “sullen and reserved” : “Curious Trials connected with the Aristocracy,” in The Patrician (London: Churton, 1848), VI, 246. |
| 174 | “ought always to go” : Report of the Trial of Courvoisier (Chiswick: Chiswick Press, 1918), 112; The Spectator (27 June 1840) (London: Joseph Clayton, 1840), XIII, 609. |
| 174â175 | “This was the first” : Ibid. |
| 175 | “is his friend” : Bridges, Two Studies in Crime , op. cit., 110. |
| 176 | “different scenes” : The Examiner , 12 July 1840. |
| 176 | “to premeditate” : Ibid. |
| 176 | “history of thieves” : Ibid. |
| 176 | “be better concealed” : Ibid. |
| 177 | “had some altercation” : Ibid. |
| 177 | “When I opened” : Ibid. |
| 179 | “O God!” : Bridges, Two Studies in Crime , op. cit., 117. |
| 179 | “whether he was fully” : The Examiner , 12 July 1840. |
| 179 | “There it stands” : Bridges, Two Studies in Crime , op. cit., 113 et seq. |
| 180 | “was wont to say” : John Aubrey, “Brief Lives” (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1898), I, 111. |
| 180 | “possible he could” : Bridges, Two Studies in Crime , op. cit., 120â21. |
| 181 | “immense sway” : Ibid., 115 et seq. |
| 181 | “was steady” : Ibid., 118. |
| 181 | “turned his head” : Ibid., 116. |
| 185 | “much overrated” : Thomas De Quincey, “On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts,” in Select Essays of Thomas De Quincey Narrative & Imaginative , ed. David Masson (Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1888), 56. |
| 185 | “supremacy above all” : De Quincey, “Three Memorable Murders,” op. cit., 5. |
| 186 | “scenical features” : Ibid., 4. |
| 186 | “most chaotic” : Ibid., 8. |
| 186 | “the sure receptacle” : Ibid., 9. |
| 187 | “Exceeding darkness” : Ibid., 14. |
| 188 | “stationary” : Ibid., 18. |
| 188 | “We know of it” : P. D. James and T. A. Critchley, The Maul and the Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders 1811 (New York: Mysterious Press, 1986), 13. |
| 188 | “She had no fear” : De Quincey, “Three Memorable Murders,” op. cit., 22. |
| 188 | “rang the bell” : Ibid., 23. |
| 188â189 | “that led downwards” : Ibid., 24. |
| 189 | “one, two, three” : Ibid. |
| 189 | “Mr. Marr!” : James and Critchley, The Maul and the Pear Tree , op. cit., 13. |
| 189 | “Marr, Marr” : Ibid., 14. |
| 189 | “so floated with gore” : De Quincey, “Three Memorable Murders,” op. cit., 27. |
| 191 | “frenzy of feelings” : Ibid., 5â6. |
| 192 | “You are an officer” : The Examiner , 22 December 1811. |
| 192 | “I certainly will” : James and Critchley, The Maul and the Pear Tree , op. cit., 66. |
| 192 | “white as a corpse's” : “Some Curiosities of Crime,” in Otago Witness , 2 June 1892. |
| 192 | “There's murder inside” : Ibid. |
| 192 | “dreadful annunciation” : De Quincey, “Three Memorable Murders,” op. cit., 55. |
| 193 | “the wolfish dog” : Ibid., 56. |
| 195 | “suspended by the neck” : James and Critchley, The Maul and the Pear Tree , op. cit., 128. |
| 196 | “objective correlative” : T. S. Eliot, “Hamlet,” in Eliot, Selected Essays (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1950), 124 et seq. |
| 198 | “Damn you” : Martin Baggoley, Surrey Executions (Stroud: Amberley Publishing, 2013) (electronic edition). |
| 199 | “Monsieur can never” : Sabine Baring-Gould, The Book of Were-Wolves (London: Smith, Elder, 1865), 2. |
| 199 | “ghastly and revolting” : Ibid., 131. |
| 201 | “bloodhound” : De Quincey, “Three Memorable Murders,” op. cit., 19, 56, 11. |
| 201 | “of the most extraordinary” : Ibid., 9â10. |
| 201 | “cadaverous” : Ibid., 37. |
| 202 | “unnatural” : Ibid., 34. |
| 202 | “début” : De Quincey, “On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts” (Supplementary Paper), op. cit., 72. |
| 202 | Titian : Ibid., 11. |
| 203 | “with an insatiate” : Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (New York: De Fau, 1906), I, 109. |
| 203 | “villainously pranked” : The Works of Charles Lamb (New York: A. C. Armstrong, 1886), III, v. |
| 203 | “All perils” : De Quincey, “Three Memorable Murders,” op. cit., 34. |
| 204 | “gathering agitation” : Thomas De Quincey, “A Sequel to the Confessions,” in De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater , op. cit., 148. |
| 206 | Mary Ann “Polly” Nichols : The Times , 1 September 1888. |
| 208 | “one of the worst” : The Times , 11 April 1863. |
| 208 | “to get a young woman” : Ibid. |
| 209 | Emma Jackson : Ibid. |
| 212 | Ann Priest : Nicola Sly, Oxfordshire Murders (Stroud: History Press, 2012) (electronic book). |
| 214 | decent obscurity : Compare Gibbon: “My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language.” |
| 214 | outrage to her womanhood : The post-mortem examination conducted by Professor Kidd of the University together with three surgeons found that her “death resulted from blood loss following insertion of either a sharp instrument or a blunt and powerful instrument into her vagina, the instrument having been violently jiggled in different directions, causing deep cuts.” Sly, Oxfordshire Murders , op. cit. |
| 215 | had never been : E. M. Darlington, The Radcliffes of Leigh Lancashire: A Family Memorial (privately printed, 1918). |
| 217 | “is a dull dog” : Arthur Machen, The Great God Pan and The Inmost Light (London: John Lane, 1895), 116. |
| 225 | “will forget the terror” : Sir Melville L. Macnaghten, Days of My Years (New York: Longmans, Green, 1914), 55. |
| 225â226 | Nichols and Chapman : Ibid., 58. |
| 226 | “Dear Boss” letter : Ibid. |
| 226 | Stride and Eddowes : Ibid., 59â60. |
| 226â227 | Mary Jane Kelley : Ibid., 60â61; “The âCrank' or Criminal of Whitechapel,” in The Alienist and Neurologist (St. Louis: Carreras, 1889), X, 102â04. |
| 227 | “too apathetic” : Augusta Larned, “Whitechapel, London,” in The Freemason's Repository (July 1889) (Providence: E. L. Freeman and Son, 1888â89), XVIII, 507. |
| 227 | “the fury” : Macnaghten, Days of My Years , op. cit., 61. |