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'This Rash Act': Suicide Across the Life Cycle in the Victorian City
'This Rash Act' Suicide Across the Life Cycle in the Victorian City
Author: Victor Bailey
What made some 700 men and women in the Yorkshire town of Kingston-upon-Hull, in the years 1837 to 1900, decide to suffer no longer “the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” and take their own lives? In this study, the author seeks to uncover the experiences that drove people to suicide; to analyze how suicide was understood by v...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780804731232
ISBN-10: 0804731233
Publication Date: 8/1/1998
Pages: 372
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Stanford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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