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

This Rash Act: Suicide Across the Life Cycle in the Victorian City
ISBN-10
0804731241
ISBN-13
9780804731249
Category
Social Science
Pages
349
Language
English
Published
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Author
Victor Bailey

Description

What made some 700 men and women in the Yorkshire town of Kingston-upon-Hull in the years 1837 to 1900 take their lives? This book attempts to answer this question and also to study how suicide was understood by victims, families, and friends; how the causes of suicide changed over time; and what coroners' inquests can tell us about Victorian life, beliefs, and values in general.

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