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Cock Lane Ghost
Murder, Sex & Haunting in Dr Johnson' London
Paul Chambers
Hardbound with original dust jacket
246 pages with complete index
Publisher: Sutton Publishing
Date Published: 2006
A joke's a very serious thing - Charles Churchill, The Ghost , 1762/3.
The Cock Lane Ghost is the true story of a series of events that took
place in London in the 1760s. Businessman, William Kent fell foul of a powerful
Norfolk family when he eloped with their daughter, Frances Lynes.
The couple fled to London and took lodging in Cock Lane. When Frances died, a
mysterious ghostly conspiracy against Kent began, gathering so much momentum that
it almost led to him being hung for murder.
At the heart of the affair was a story of sexual infatuation, conspiracy,
accusations of murder and rape and the alleged return of the victim from
beyond the grave to point out her killer. The case aroused huge popular curiosity,
was subject to the insatiable spinning of London's early newspaper industry and
ultimately involved figures such as Dr Samuel Johnson.
Paul Chambers brings to life the story of the Cock Lane ghost - a scandal whose
effect on society was such that the term Cock Lane was still synonymous with folly,
superstition and corruption 150 years later.
Condition: Book is in mint condition, though there is a small tear on the front of the dust jacket.
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