Glamorous young wife Alma Rattenbury takes her chauffeur as a lover and their scandalous relationship leads to a murder most foul.
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With painstaking research and access to brand new evidence, Sean O’Connor vividly brings this epic story to life, from its beginnings in the South London slums of the 1880s and the open vistas of the British Columbian coast, to its bloody ...
... George Percy Stoner. Since he was of an age to drive a car, and his previous employment had been in a garage, he was engaged as chauffeurhandyman. On Monday 27 May 1935, Alma Victoria Rattenbury ... Rattenbury and Stoner (1935) by F Tennyson ...
Alma Victoria Pakenham (neé Clarke), the “marvellous musician,” belonged to a family that had played a leading role in Victoria's musical life. Her own later success as a musician was largely owing to the encouragement provided by her ...
Portsmouth, Plymouth, Woolwich, Chatham, Sheerness, Aldershot, Colchester, Shorncliffe and The Curragh, ... Walkowitz, City of Dreadful Delight, chs 3 and 4; P. McHugh, Prostitution and Victorian Social Reform: The Campaign Against the ...
... Victoria 1842-1970 . Victoria : Observer Publishing Co. , 1970 . Jesse , F. Tennyson , ed . Trial of Alma Victoria Rattenbury and George Percy Stoner . Notable British Trials Series . London : W. Hodge , 1935 . Kalman , Harold . A ...
M. Page Baldwin, 'Subject to Empire: Married Women and the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act', Journal of British Studies, 40 (October 2001), p. 534. 162 Mixed Britannia (1910-39). Campaigning against British women's loss of ...
Pearson enjoyed it all as a boy would a game.62 Whether the historical nature of this crime excuses Pearson's and Roughead's playacting is debatable, though as I will show in Chapter 1, claiming respectability was often easier for an ...
This book asserts the extraordinary quality of mid-twentieth century playwright Terence Rattigan’s dramatic art and its basis in his use of subtext, implication, and understatement.