- Paperback: 218 pages
- Publisher: University of Chicago Press; New edition edition (13 July 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0226560686
- ISBN-13: 978-0226560687
- Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.5 x 0.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,091,828 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Between 1877 and 1892, Dr Thomas Neill Cream murdered seven women, all prostitutes or patients seeking abortions, in England and North America. Using press reports and police dossiers, this account of the killings investigates the links between crime and respectability to reveal a remarkable range of Victorian sexual tensions and fears. The author explores how the roles of murderer and victim were created, and how similar tensions might contribute to the increase in serial killing in modern society.
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The mention of nineteenth-century, working-class London immediately conjures up the images of the bustling streets and crowded rookeries of the eastern parishes-Stepney, Shoreditch, and Whitechapel. Read the first page
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The mention of nineteenth-century, working-class London immediately conjures up the images of the bustling streets and crowded rookeries of the eastern parishes-Stepney, Shoreditch, and Whitechapel. Read the first page
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a meticulously researched and very detailed account of Cream's life and crimes. It gives a remarkable insight into working class life during the 1890s, with excellent sections on prostitution, medical attitudes to women and sexuality, and the murky world of late Victorian fertility management. Not a book for those seeking a racy account of Cream's murders, but very handy for those working in the study of crime, social history, women's history, Victorian London and so on. Useful background too for those interested in writers such as Gissing, Arthur Morrison, etc. The style is scholarly, but certainly not dull or impenetrable.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Those of you who are expecting a lurid blow by blow account of the Lambeth poisoners career (a la Jack the Ripper) will be somewhat dissappointed. Those of you expecting an intelligent study of Thomas Neill Cream and the society that spawned and spurned him, as well as his victims, will be tremendously rewarded.
McLaren writes lucidly and authoritatively (and all to briefly) on subjects pertaining to crime, prostitution, the police, the law-courts, abortion and the increasingly marginalised place in society that Cream's victims found themselves.
My interest in the criminal/social history of Victorian London led me to "A Perscription for Murder", and it has enlightened me like few other book's I have yet encountered.
My one slight criticism is that for such a well researched book (the bibliography alone is to die for), it's all to short. Nevertheless, the detail, and the analysis is impressive.
A highly recommended read for all those with an interest in criminology and late Victorian social history.
McLaren writes lucidly and authoritatively (and all to briefly) on subjects pertaining to crime, prostitution, the police, the law-courts, abortion and the increasingly marginalised place in society that Cream's victims found themselves.
My interest in the criminal/social history of Victorian London led me to "A Perscription for Murder", and it has enlightened me like few other book's I have yet encountered.
My one slight criticism is that for such a well researched book (the bibliography alone is to die for), it's all to short. Nevertheless, the detail, and the analysis is impressive.
A highly recommended read for all those with an interest in criminology and late Victorian social history.
0 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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I thought a relatively exciting and thought provoking subject for good reading would be the Jack the Ripper murders. How could one take such a fascinating subject and make it boring? Angus McLaren must really have tried to structure his sentences so there was no cohesive thought, no sense of continuity from one paragraph to the next. Although it does serve admirably well as a sedative. At one point, I had to go look at the copyright date to see if this was written in the 19th century colloquial.
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