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.
Part II: Legal, Medical, Literary and Miscellaneous Texts Anon.,
Inquisition on one who Hanged Himself , Th e Coroners Guide (1756) Anon.,
Th e Durham Tragedy (1760) Charles Collignon, Of Suicide, Medicina Politica
(1765) William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England (1769) William
Eden, Of Suicide, Principles of Penal Law (1771) Anon., Suicide, a Poem
(1773) Anon., Suicide, an Elegy (1775) Anon., Concerning the Laws and the
Coroners Practice in Cases of Suicide, Considerations on Some of the Laws
Relating to the Office of a Coroner (1776) Thomas Warton, The Suicide,
Poems (1777) [ Herbert Croft ], Love and Madness (1780) Anon., Th e Suicide,
Adventures of a Hackney Coach (1781) Anon., A Letter to a Gentleman who had
Attempted to Commit Suicide, Literary Amusements (1782) Anon., Reuben, or Th
e Suicide (1787) William Rowley, On Suicide, A Treatise on Female
Diseases (1788) Jane Timbury, Th e Suicide, Th e Philanthropic Rambler
(1790) John Coates, An Answer to the Justification of Suicide (1792) Charles
James, Suicide Rejected, Poems (1792) Charles Pigott, Suicide, A
Political Dictionary (1795) Hannah More, Robert and Richard (1796) [ John
Gorton], Tubal to Seba: Th e Negro Suicide (1797) [ Joseph James],
Extraordinary Case of Suicide (1797) Suicide, Encyclopaedia Britannica
(1797) Part III: Newspapers and Magazines, George Colman, Th e Genius, St.
Jamess Chronicle, 1012 October 1761, Thomas Chatterton, The Unfortunate
Fathers, Town and CountryMagazine ( January 1770) John Wesley, Letter to the
General Evening Post, 224 July 1790 Anonymous and Pseudonymous Letters and
Extracts, Letter to the London Daily Advertiser, 21 June 1751, General
Evening Post, 1720 August 1751, Of Suicide, Reads Weekly Journal, 14
October 1752 Letter to Grays Inn Journal, 24 March 1753 Advertisement,
Gentlemans Magazine, 25 ( January 1755) Connoisseur, 9 January 1755 Letter
to the London Evening Post, 235 October 1755, Some Observations on the
Causes of Suicide, Gentlemans Magazine, 26 ( January 1756) Letter to the
World, 9 September 1756 Letter to the World, 23 September 1756 210
Reflections on Suicide, London Magazine, 31 (March 1762) A Letter to a
Friend, on Suicide and Madness, Gentlemans Magazine, 32 (April 1762)
Reflections on Suicide (continued), London Magazine,(April 1762) Thoughts
on Self-Preservation, with Regard to Suicide, Annual Register, 6 (1764)
Letter to the Public Advertiser, 23 June 1764 Letter to the Public
Advertiser, 29 June 1765 Letter to the Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser, 26
December 1765 On Self-Murder, Public Advertiser, 16 August 1768 Letter to
the Town and Country Magazine, 2 (February 1770) Hoeys Dublin Mercury, 1013
August 1771 Letter to Hoeys Dublin Mercury, 1517 August 1771 An Essay on
Suicide Committed by those in whom the Least Symptoms of Lunacy Never
Appeared, Westminster Journal, December 1771 Thoughts on Suicide, Town and
Country Magazine, ( January 1772)Essay on Suicide, Westminster Journal, 4,
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