Mrs Nesbit’s loyalty to, 291, 302
murder of, 258, 260-3, 264-5
obituaries, 265
obtains affidavit from Evelyn, 297, 329
press smears and insinuations after murder of, 265-6
statutory rape of Evelyn Nesbit, 279-80, 292-3, 294-5, 301, 306, 317, 325, 341, 342, 343
Thaw’s obsession with, 267, 268, 269, 270, 286-8, 291, 292-3, 294-5, 296, 299, 322-3
‘vices’ and ‘atrocities’ of, 265-6, 268-9, 337, 340, 341, 343
White, William Alanson, 307, 310, 331, 332, 346, 347, 366-7, 375
opens teaching to black students, 311
opinion on ‘The Credo of Psychiatrists’, 376, 377, 378, 381
Studies in Forensic Psychiatry (1916 textbook with Bermard Glueck), 375-6
Whittaw, Mrs Adelaide, 108
Wiener, Martin J., 114
Wilde, Oscar, De Profundis, 124
Wiley, Dr Charles J., 314-16
Williams, ‘Clubber’, 255
Williams, Thomas H., 267-8
Winslow, L. Forbes, 83, 99, 121
women
acquittals on grounds of insanity, 115
anxieties about hypnotism and, 231-4
avenging of honour as mitigating factor, 187-8, 191-3, 199, 202, 235, 239-40, 241, 242, 243-6, 397
belle époque notions of femininity, 139-41, 144, 167-8, 188, 190-5, 198, 199-201, 235-6, 240-1, 246, 250-1
campaign for rights in France, 200-1
championing of property rights for, 114
criminality and ideals of femininity, 379-81
emancipated femininity in twentieth-century, 339, 341, 342-3, 373, 387, 392
Evelyn Nesbit as the ‘modern Helen’, 259
examinations by doctors, 59-60
female desire as aberrant, 34, 50, 51, 59, 61, 71, 107, 250, 251, 339
in French judicial system, 161, 172, 188, 193-5, 198, 199, 235-6, 379-80
Gilded Age notions of femininity, 259, 300, 325-6, 339-43
illicit passions for doctors, 56-7, 59-61, 62, 65
interest in Edmunds case, 27, 69
John Ruskin’s thoughts on, 72-4, 78
John Stuart Mill’s thoughts on, 24-5
Lombroso’s view of the criminal woman, 161
love crimes by as feature of belle époque, 193-4, 199, 235-6
as poisoners, 25, 69, 114
reproductive system, 49-51
sexualized female badness, 74-5, 77
‘spinster’ classification, 5, 23, 46, 54, 122, 124
splitting of into two (the chaste and the sullied), 295
suffrage campaigns, 68, 200-1
upper class, 5
Victorian notions of femininity, 5, 34, 49-51, 53, 59, 63, 70-2, 73-5, 107, 114-15, 122-3, 130, 131
Victorian restrictions on desires of, 52, 53, 54, 59-60, 61, 63, 72
les vitrioleuses in France, 199-200, 201-5
Wood, Dr William, 82-3, 84-5
writing, unstoppable, 28, 70
Wuornos, Aileen, 380-1
Yale, 388, 389
Yarmouth, Earl of, 266, 344
York Retreat, 43
Yorke, Charles, 3-4
zinc, 16
Zola, Émile, 139, 218
Nana, 140, 273
Zurich, 295, 309
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TRIALS OF PASSION
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Table of Contents
Title
Contents
Passion Goes to Court
Part One: Britain
The Unspoken
I. Christiana Edmunds and The Chocolate Cream Murders
1 The Borgia of Brighton
2 The Hearing
3 A Wilful Killing?
4 The Rumbles of History
5 Sex and the Victorian Hysteric
6 Fashions in Treatment
7 Loving Doctors
8 At the Old Bailey
9 Insanity and the Law
10 ‘Enceinte! She Says She Is, My Lord’
11 Murder, Gender and Shifting Public Attitudes
12 Saving (Mad) Christiana
13 Broadmoor
Part Two: France
Virtue on Trial
II. A Hysteria of The Heart: The Case of Marie Biere
14 The Love Child
15 ‘Going Mad’
16 The Investigation
17 Passion, Madness and Medics
18 The Trial of Marie Biere
19 ‘A Hyper-excitation of the Affective Faculties
20 The Verdict
21 Afterlife
22 Revolvers and Vitriol
III. Hysteria, Hypnosis and Criminal Responsibility
23 Hypnotic Murders 1: The Chambige Affair
24 Hypnotic Murders 2: L’Affaire Gouffe
IV. Naturalizing The Impulsivefeminine
25 Henriette Caillaux Meets the Press
26 A Woman’s Honour
27 Into the Sexual Century
Part Three: The United States
The Paranoia of a Millionaire
V. Brain Storm Over Manhattan
28 A Voluptuary's Retreat
29 Murder in the Garden
30 The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing
31 The Pittsburgh Millionaire
32 Pursuing Evelyn
33 The Trial of the Century
34 Mad Harry: American Psychiatry Meets the Law
35 Experts on the Stand
36 Star Witness for the Defence
37 The Prosecution Counter-attacks
38 Climax: ‘Murder as a Cure for Insanity’
39 Sexual Politics
40 Expert Fall-out
41 The Second Trial of Harry K. Thaw
42 Manic-depressive Insanity
43 Fighting Lunacy
44 The Great Escape
45 Assessing the Experts
Coda
Notes
Select Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
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