{"product_id":"saints-and-sinners-in-queen-victorias-courts-9781476680811","title":"Saints and Sinners in Queen Victorias Courts","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e   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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\tix\u003cbr\u003ePreface\t1\u003cbr\u003ePart I—A Crisis of Victorian Culture\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Specter\t6\u003cbr\u003e 2. Outside the Law\t10\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Court of Lost Causes\t21\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Family Tree and Genealogical Puzzles\t25\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Victorian Intellectual Aristocracy\t32\u003cbr\u003e 6. Architects on the Defensive\t44\u003cbr\u003ePart II—Ten Scandalous Court Cases\u003cbr\u003e 7. The ­Ex-Priest and the Nun Who Was His Former Wife: Connelly v. Connelly, 1849–1851\t52\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Defrocked Dominican Priest and the Future Cardinal Whose Brothers Were Atheists: Regina v. J.H. Newman, 1851–53\t64\u003cbr\u003e 9. The Royal ­By-Blow, the Wandering Statue, and the Religiously Divided Church: FitzClarence v. Blount, 1851–1852\t88\u003cbr\u003e10. The Medieval Architectural Folly, the Tenth Cousin, and the Earl Who Was a Jesuit: Talbot v. Earl of Shrewsbury, 1857–1867\t99\u003cbr\u003e11. The Convent Scandal, Fatty Mutton, and the Goosebury Fool: Saurin v. Star and Kennedy, 1869\t113\u003cbr\u003e12. The ­Twenty-Six-Stone Claimant and the Invisible Stonyhurst College Quadrangle: Tichborne v. Lushington, 1872–1873, and Regina v. Tom Castro, 1873–1874\t125\u003cbr\u003e13. The Catholic Lord and the Protestant Vicar in the Valley of Martyrs and Queens: The Duke of Norfolk v. Arbuthnot, 1879\t152\u003cbr\u003e14. The Archbishop and the Jesuit College Building Fund: Eyre-Eyre v. Eyre, 1883\t165\u003cbr\u003e15. The Lord Chief Justice and His ­Anti-Vivisectionist Son-in-Law: Adams v. Coleridge, 1885–1886\t171\u003cbr\u003e16. The Deathbed Letter and the Secret Codicil of the Perfidious Jesuit: Jerningham v. Caddell, 1888\t187\u003cbr\u003ePart III—The Unbuilt Victorian Church\u003cbr\u003e17. Divided Churches, Divided Souls\t194\u003cbr\u003eChapter Notes\t207\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\t217\u003cbr\u003eIndex\t229","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040473186647,"sku":"9781476680811","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781476680811.jpg?v=1750946865","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/saints-and-sinners-in-queen-victorias-courts-9781476680811","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}