Cock Lane Ghost
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1760s
18th century
A01=Paul Chambers
Author_Paul Chambers
betty|murder
Category=DNX
Category=VXQG
cock lane
corruption
dr johnson
dr samuel johnson
eighteenth century
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eq_biography-true-stories
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eq_mind-body-spirit
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
folly
frances lynes
georgian era
ghost
ghosts
haunted
haunting
horace walpole
london
london press
murder sex & haunting in dr johnson's london
murder sex and haunting in dr johnson's london
oliver goldsmith
phenomenon
richard parsons
robbery
scandal
society
superstition
william hogarth
william kent
Product details
- ISBN 9780750938693
- Weight: 440g
- Dimensions: 156 x 197mm
- Publication Date: 08 Mar 2006
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Cock Lane Ghost is a true story of sexual infatuation, conspiracy, murderous accusations and ghostly visitations. Played out in London in the 1760s, it involved everyone from a drunken landlord, respected clergymen, newspaper journalists and a powerful aristocratic family to Dr Samuel Johnston. Its effect was such that the term Cock Lane was still synonymous with folly, superstition and corruption over a century later. Paul Chambers draws on a wealth of contemporary sources to paint a vivid picture of the events that led to the scandal and its aftermath in this entertaining portrait of eighteenth-century life.
Paul Chambers is a palaeontologist who has worked on the BBC's Dinosaur Detectives, Walking with Dinosaurs, Walking with Beasts and The Lost World. His previous books include the highly esteemed Bones of Contention.
