'This Rash Act': Suicide Across the Life Cycle in the Victorian City

by Victor Bailey

Book Overview

What made some 700 men and women in the Yorkshire town of Kingston-upon-Hull, in the years 1837 to 1900, decide to suffer no longer "the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" and take their own lives? In this study, the author seeks to uncover the experiences that drove people to suicide; to analyze how suicide was understood by victims, by their families and friends, and by legal and medical authorities; to study how the presumed causes of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804731233
• ISBN13: 9780804731232
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"