Comments on: Chapter 5. Indescribable Panic

By: Miriam McDonald

Miriam McDonald — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 11:58:08 +0000

I was intrigued to learn that some 16 years after Ratcliffe, Thomas DeQuincey published an essay, “On Murder As One of the Fine Arts”. The beginnings of ‘true crime’ armchair analysis rather than purely sensationalist accounts? Bravo for your fascinating posts, GA.

By: molly ayton

molly ayton — Thu, 23 Dec 2021 14:02:11 +0000

Brilliantly written can not wait for the next episode

By: Lorraine

Lorraine — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 18:55:22 +0000

Thoroughly enjoying this fascinating series of articles. This is my home turf – St George in the East my church – but I knew nothing about the case until now. Can you please tell me where I can lay my hands on a copy of the publication for which you show the cover in this episode 5 ‘full account of the horrid murders etc’ ? Thank you.

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 11:51:12 +0000

As grisly as they are, I am really enjoying these accounts.
I am not sure I believe the lodger. Would someone in the process of being murdered really say “I am a dead man”, as he reports? I think counsel for the prosecution could make mincemeat out of him.
You have us on the edge of our seats G.A.

By: Mathilde Grange

Mathilde Grange — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 10:09:37 +0000

Impatiently waiting for further developments.

By: Bailey Jones

Bailey Jones — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 09:49:43 +0000

Such panic indeed!

Query: Were the two poets staying at Wordsworth’s Dove Cottage at the time? If so, Dove Cottage is in Grasmere, near Ambleside, then in the old county of Westmoreland, rather than Keswick, which was then in the old county of Cumberland. A mere twenty miles difference.

Forgive my pendantry but being a woman of the North West, I can get a bit fussy about these things.