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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.
Contents
PART I: 1650-1750 volume 1 General Introduction 1650-1673 General Introduction Introduction to Volumes 1 and 2 Bibliography Suicide and the Broadside Ballad Anon., The Faithful Lovers Downfal: The Death of Fair Phillis Who Killed Her Self for Loss of Her Philander (c. 1644-80) Anon., The Lamenting Ladies Last Farewel to the World (c. 1650-80) C. H., The Divils Cruelty to Mankind (1662) Anon., A Godly Warning for All Maidens by the Example of Gods Judgements Shewed upon One Jermans Wife of Clif on in the County of Nottingham, Who Lying in Child-Bed, Was Born Away and Never Heard of After (c. 1670) Anon., The Dying Damsels Doleful Destiny: Or, True Love Requited with Evil (c. 1671-1704) Anon., Loves Lamentable Tragedy (c. 1671-1704) Anon., The London Damsels Fate by Unjust Tyrany: Or, The Rash Lover (c. 1672-96) Anon., A Tragical Story of Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor (1677) Anon., Loves Downfal (c. 1678-80) Anon., The Unnatural Mother: Being a True Relation of One Jane Lawson, Once Living a Theast-Barnet, in Middlesex; Who Quarreling with Her Husband, Urged Him to Strike Her, and Thereupon the Same Night, Being the First of Sept. 1680, Drowned Her Self and Two Poor Babes in a Well (c. 1680-1) Anon., The Damosels Tragedy: Or, True Love in Distress (c. 1682-1703) Anon., The Fair Maid Of Dunsmore's Lamentation (c. 1683) Anon., Whitney's Dying Letter to His Mistriss T at Betray'd Him: With Her Answer (1692) Thomas Beard, 'Of Such as Have Murdered Themselves' (1631) William Denny, Pelecanicidium, or The Christian Advisor against Self-Murder (1653) Anon., A Sad Caveat to All Quakers. Not to Boast Any More That They Have God Almighty by the Hand, When They Have the Devil by the Toe (1657) [Owen Stockton], Counsel to the Afflicted, or Instruction and Consolation for Such as Have Suffered Loss by Fire (1667) [ J. Shafe], The Great Law of Nature, or Self-Preservation Examined, Asserted, and Vindicated f om Mr. Hobbes His Abuses (1673) Anon., A True Account of the Late Most Doleful, and Lamentable Tragedy of Old Maddam Gwinn, Mother to Maddam Elenor Gwinn; Who Was Unfortunately Drowned, in a Fish-Pond, at Her Own Mansion-House, Near the Neat-Houses (1679) John Collinges, Defensative Armour against Four of Sathan's Most Fiery Darts: Viz. Temptations to Atheistical and Blasphemous Impressions and Thoughts, Self-Murther, Despair, and Presumption (1680) Editorial Notes
