Class, Servitude, and the Criminal Justice System in Early Victorian London
This volume draws on the recently discovered and extraordinarily rich scrapbook compiled by prosecuting solicitor Francis Hobler about the 1840 murder of Lord William Russell to consider public engagement with the issues raised from discovery of the murder itself through the ensuing legal processes.
The murder of Russell by his valet François Benjamin Courvoisier was a cause célèbre in its own day ...
This volume draws on the recently discovered and extraordinarily rich scrapbook compiled by prosecuting solicitor Francis Hobler about the 1840 murder of Lord William Russell to consider public engagement with the issues raised from discovery of the murder itself through the ensuing legal processes.
The murder of Russell by his valet François Benjamin Courvoisier was a cause célèbre in its own day ...
