ten scandalous trials Zaniello, Tom 1943- creator text bibliography ncu Jefferson, North Carolina McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers [2021] 2021 monographic eng

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ix, 232 p. : ill. ""This chronicle of ten controversial mid-Victorian trials features brother versus brother, aristocrats fighting commoners, an imposter to a family's fortune, and an ex-priest suing his ex-wife, a nun. Most of these trials-never before analyzed in depth-assailed a culture that frowned upon public displays of bad taste, revealing fault lines in what is traditionally seen as a moral and regimented society. The author examines religious scandals, embarrassments about shaky family trees, and even arguments about which architecture is most likely to convert people from one faith to another."-Provided by publisher"-- The Specter -- Outside the law -- The court of lost causes -- The family tree and genealogical puzzles -- The Victorian intellectual aristocracy -- Architects on the defensive -- The ex-priest and the nun who was his former wife : Connelly v. Connelly, 1849-1851 -- The defrocked Dominican priest and the future cardinal whose brothers were atheists : Regina v. J.H. Newman, 1851-53 -- The royal by-blow, the Wandering Statue, and the religiously divided church : Fitz Clarence v. Blount, 1851-1852 -- The Medieval architectural folly, the tenth cousin, and the Earl who was a Jesuit : Talbot v. Earl of Shrewsbury, 1857-1867 -- The convent scandal, Fatty Mutton, and the Goosebury fool : Saurin v. Star and Kennedy, 1869 -- The twenty-six-stone claimant and the invisible Stonyhurst College Quadrangle : Tichborne v. Lushington, 1872-1873, and Regina v. Tom Castro, 1873-1874 -- The Catholic Lord and the Protestant Vicar in the valley of martyrs and queens : the Duke of Norfolk v. Arbuthnot, 1879 -- The Archbishop and the Jesuit college building fund : Eyre-Eyre v. Eyre, 1883 -- The Lord Chief Justice and his anti-vivisectionist son-in-law : Adams v. Coleridge, 1885-1886 -- The deathbed letter and the secret codicil of the perfidious Jesuit : Jerningham v. Caddell, 1888 -- Divided churches, divided souls. Tom Zaniello. Includes bibliographical references and index. Trials England History 19th century Law Social aspects History England 19th century England Social conditions 19th century KD378 .Z36 2021 9781476680811 (pbk.) 1476680817 (pbk.) 2020058692 210104 on1232014481