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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 II: 1750-1850 Volume 5: 1750-1799: Sermons, Discourses, Essays and Treatises Introduction to Volumes 5 and 6 Part I: Sermons, Discourses, Essays and Treatises: Francis Ayscough, A Discourse against Self-Murder (1755); Wellins Calcott, 'Suicide', Thoughts Moral and Divine (1761); John Chorley Knowles, 'The Unreasonableness and Impiety of Suicide Considered', Twelve Sermons (1769); Thomas Secker, 'The Sixth Commandment', Lectures on the Catechism of the Church of England (1769); Matthew Henry Cooke, 'On Suicide', The Newest and Most Complete Whole Duty of Man (1773); Caleb Fleming, A Dissertation upon the Unnatural Crime of Self-Murder (1773); John Herries, An Address to the Public on the Frequent and Enormous Crime of Suicide (1774); John Marks Moffatt, 'To the Distressed, Especially to the Person who is Tempted to Suicide', The Duty and Interest of Every Private Person (1778); Manessah Dawes, An Essay on Crimes and Punishments (1782); J Yonge, 'Essay XIX', Essays and Letters on the Most Important and Interesting Subjects (1783); Anon., A Collection of Letters in Defence of Christianity and Its Distinguishing Doctrines (1784); George Gregory, 'An Impartial Inquiry into the Reasonableness of Suicide', Essays (1785); Richard Hey, A Dissertation on Suicide (1785); William Paley, 'Suicide', Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy (1785); Anon., A Caveat against Suicide (1786); Edmund Burton, Suicide, a Dissertation (1790); Charles Moore, A Full Inquiry into the Subject of Suicide (1790); Anon., Short Expostulations and Thoughts on Suicide (1790); Herbert Croft , A Sermon Preached at Prittlewell (1791); Edward Barry, 'Self-Murder', Theological, Philosophical and Moral Essays (1792); John Garnons, 'On Suicide', Sermons on Various Subjects (1792); Vicesmus Knox, 'Against Despair and Suicide', Sermons (1792); John Watkins, 'Enquiry into the Causes of Suicide', The Peeper, A Collection of Essays, Moral, Biographical, and Literary (1796); George Beaver, A Sermon against Self-Murther (1797); George Gregory, A Sermon on Suicide (1797); Anon., 'On Suicide', Crude Thoughts on Prevailing Subjects (1798); William Davy, 'Against Suicide, or Self-Murder', A System of Divinity (1799) Volume 6: 1750-1799: Legal, Medical, Literary and Miscellaneous Texts and Newspapers and Magazines Part II: Legal, Medical, Literary and Miscellaneous Texts: Anon., 'Inquisition on one who Hanged Himself ', The Coroner's Guide (1756); Anon., The 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 Coroner's 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., 'The 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 the Suicide (1787); William Rowley, 'On Suicide', A Treatise on Female ... Diseases (1788); Jane Timbury, 'The Suicide', The 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: The Negro Suicide (1797); [ Joseph James], Extraordinary Case of Suicide (1797); 'Suicide', Encyclopedia Britannica (1797) Part III: Newspapers and Magazines: George Colman, 'The Genius', St. James's Chronicle, 10-12 October 1761; Thomas Chatterton, 'The Unfortunate Fathers', Town and Country Magazine (January 1770); John Wesley, Letter to the General Evening Post, 22-4 July 1790 Anonymous and Pseudonymous Letters and Extracts: Letter to the London Daily Advertiser, 21 June 1751; General Evening Post, 17-20 August 1751; 'Of Suicide', Read's Weekly Journal, 14 October 1752; Letter to Gray's Inn Journal, 24 March 1753; Advertisement, Gentleman's Magazine, 25 (January 1755); Connoisseur, 9 January 1755; Letter to the London Evening Post, 23-5 October 1755; 'Some Observations on the Causes of Suicide', Gentleman's Magazine (January 1756); Letter to the World, 9 September 1756; Letter to the World, 23 September 1756; 'Reflections on Suicide', London Magazine (March 1762); 'A Letter to a Friend, on Suicide and Madness', Gentleman's Magazine (April 1762); 'Reflections on Suicide' (continued), London Magazine (April 1762); 'Thoughts on Self-Preservation, with Regard to Suicide', Annual Register (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 (February 1770); Hoey's Dublin Mercury, 10-13 August 1771; Letter to Hoey's Dublin Mercury, 15-17 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 January 1772; 'Essay on Suicide' (continued), Westminster Journal, 11 January 1772; 'Conclusion of an Essay on Suicide', Westminster Journal, 25 January 1772; 'On Suicide', Morning Chronicle, 25 July 1772; 'To Zeno', Morning Chronicle, 9 September 1772; Letter to the Morning Chronicle, 12 September 1772; Letter to the Town and Country Magazine (November 1772); Letter to the Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser, 10 November 1772; 'Reflections on Suicide', Morning Chronicle, 1, 3, 8, 10, 15 August 1774; Letter to the St. James's Chronicle, 22 November 1774; Letter to the Morning Chronicle, 28 November 1774; Letter to the Public Advertiser, 12 December 1774; Letter to Lloyd's Evening Post, 14-17 April 1775; Letter to the Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser, 30 December 1777; 'On Suicide', Morning Chronicle, 21 July 1778; 'The Mock Suicide, a Ludicrous but Recent Anecdote', Morning Chronicle, 8 September 1778; Letter to the St. James's Chronicle, 17 November 1778; Letter to the St. James's Chronicle, 4 April 1779; Letter to the St. James's Chronicle, 9 November 1779; Whitehall Evening Post, 15 February 1780; 'A Petition without Committee or Association to the King, Lords, and Commons in Parliament Assembled', Public Advertiser, 20 March 1780; Letter to the St. James's Chronicle, 25 July 1780; Letter to the St. James's Chronicle, 10 August 1780; 'On Moral Obligation', Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser, 18 August 1781; Letter to the St. James's Chronicle, 20 October 1781; 'A Late Suicide', Public Advertiser, 30 March 1782; 'The Observer', Town and Country Magazine (January 1783); [R Hart], 'An Essay on Suicide', Weekly Entertainer, 2 June 1783; 'Anecdotes of the late Mr. Powell, in a Letter Addressed to the Printer of the Bury Post', Gentleman's Magazine (July 1783); 'Conclusion of the Evidence before the Coroner's Jury on Mr. Powell', Gentleman's Magazine (August 1783); Deaths, Gentleman's Magazine (November 1784); Letter to the Gentleman's Magazine (December 1784); 'Suicide', Whitehall Evening Post, 29 September 1785; Letter to the Gentleman's Magazine (February 1786); Letter to the Gentleman's Magazine (April 1786); 'On Suicide', Public Advertiser, 3 June 1786; London Chronicle, 4-6 July 1786; 'A Melancholy Fact', The Times, 23-6 September 1786; London Recorder, 15 October 1786; 'On Self-Murder', Gentleman's Magazine (January 1787); Extract from a letter from Dublin, World, 27 June 1787; 'Affecting Narrative of Murderers and Suicides, with an Observation on the Law of England, as to the Former Sin', World, 10 July 1787; Felix Fairley's Bristol Journal, 21 July 1787; 'Mr Hesse', World, 3 June 1788; New London Magazine, July 1788; 'Lord Say and Sele', World, 4 July 1788; 'Suicide', General Evening Post, 8-10 July 1788; Morning Chronicle, 23 July 1788; 'On Self-Murder', Morning Chronicle, 30 July 1788; Letter to the Morning Chronicle, 20 September 1788; Letter to the St. James's Chronicle, 25 September 1788; Letter to the Morning Chronicle, 27 September 1788; Letter to the St. James's Chronicle, 15 October 1789; Letter to the Gentleman's Magazine (November 1789); 'Curious Hand-Bill', World, 17 November 1789; Letter to the Argus, 10 March 1790; Letter to the Public Advertiser, 13 March 1790; Letter to the General Evening Post, 29-31 July 1790; 'Bennet's Suicide', The Times, 6 August 1790; Letter to the General Evening Post, 21-4 August 1790; 'Observations on Suicide', General Evening Post, 24-6 August 1790; Letter to the General Evening Post, 7-9 September 1790; Letter to the General Evening Post, 18-21 September 1790; Letter to the General Evening Post, 21-3 September 1790; 'Reflections Occasioned by Reading Zimmermann's Treatise on Solitude, with an Interesting Anecdote Conveying an Antidote against Suicide', Whitehall Evening Post, 3 November 1791; Letter to the Public Advertiser, 25 October 1793; 'Considerations against Self-Murder', Asylum, 8 July 1795; 'Suicide', European Magazine (October 1796); 'On the Frequency of Suicide', Oeconomist (1798) Volume 7: 1800-1850: Legal Contexts, Religious Writings and Medical Writers Introduction to Volumes 7 and 8 Legal Contexts: George Custance, A Concise View of the Constitution of England (1808); Anthony Highmore, A Treatise on the Law of Lunacy and Idiocy (1807); Anon., 'On the Punishment Annexed to Self-Murder' (1813); 'An Act to Alter and Amend the Law relating to the Interment of the Remains of any Person Found Felo de Se' (1823); John Impey, The Office and Duty of Coroners (1800) Religious Writings: Sydney Smith, 'On Suicide' (1809); Anon., A Remedy for Self-Murder (1819); Solomon Piggott, Suicide and its Antidotes (1824). Burial Rites Debate: Arthur Phillip Perceval, A Clergyman's Defence of himself, for Refusing to Use the Office for the Burial of the Dead Over One who Destroyed himself, Notwithstanding the Coroner's Verdict of Mental Derangement (1833); Henry Woods, A Few Leading Facts, in Defense of Truth & Character, in a Letter Addressed to the Hon & Rev A P Perceval (1833) Medical Writers: George Man Burrows, 'Suicide' (1828); John Gideon Millingen, 'Remarkable Suicides', Bentley's Miscellany (1839); Forbes Winslow, The Anatomy of Suicide (1840) Appendix: Legal Abbreviations Volume 8: 1800-1850: Medical Writers (continued), Statistical Inquiries, Social Criticism, Poetic and Popular Representations and Cases Medical Writers (continued): Forbes Winslow, The Anatomy of Suicide, continued (1840) Statistical Inquiries: George Man Burrows, Observations on the Comparative Mortality of Paris and London (1815); William Farr, 'Causes of Death in England and Wales. Letter to the Registrar-General from William Farr, Esq.' (1841) Social Criticism: Anon., 'Prospectus of a New Joint-Stock Company. The London Suicide Company' (1839); William Johnson Fox, Two Lectures 'On Suicide' (1845) Poetic Representations: Anna Seward, 'Written in the Blank Page of the Sorrows of Werter', composed c.1785-6 (1810); William Hart, Anti-Suicide, A Poem (1809); Robert Pearse Gillies, Egbert; or, The Suicide ([c.1814]); William Combe, 'The Suicide' (1815) Popular Representations: Topical Broadsides: Anon., Dreadful Occurrence (1817); Anon., Awful Depravity. Dreadful Account of Anne Graham (1822); Anon., An Account of Three Awful Instances of Self-Murder (1823). Broadside Ballads: Anon., Sequel to Poll of Plymouth ([c.1800-2]); Anon., Fair Maria ([c.1796-1853]); Anon., The Cruel Father and Constant Lover ([c.1802-19]); Anon., William and Dinah ([c.1819-44]); John Lambern, The Suicide Club ([c.1840]); Anon., A New Hymn, Composed on a Factory Boy and Girl who were Found Drowned in the River Aire ([c.1847]); David Townshend, Lines Occasioned by the Death of William Murdin of Little Oakley, who was Found Drowned in a Pond in his Close On the 21st of December, 1847 ([c.1847]) Cases: Anon., 'Burial of the Suicide Williams' (1812); Anon., 'Patricide and Suicide' (1824); Anon., 'Death of Sir Samuel Romilly' (1818); Anon., 'Death of Marquis of Londonderry' (1822). Margaret Moyes: Anon., Particulars of the Coroner's Inquest Held on the Body of Margaret Moyes (1839); Anon., Dreadful Death of Margaret Moyes (1839); Anon., Just Published! The Authentic Particulars of the Most Determined and Frightful Suicide, of Miss Moyes (1839); Anon., Copy of Verses on the Melancholy Death of Margaret Moyes (1839)
