History of Suicide in England, 1650–1850, Part II vol 7

Mark Robson (Author) , Paul S Seaver (Author) , Kelly McGuire (Author) , Jeffrey Merrick (Author) , Daryl Lee (Author)

• 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, Th e Anatomy of Suicide (1840)