Educating Petunia (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale It almost seems redundant to summarize this investigative case study yet again as so many bloggers have reviewed this one in recent weeks but I can't say it any better than the first sentences of the introduction: "This is the story of a murder committed in an English country house in 1860, perhaps the most disturbing murder of its time. The...
This Book Is For You (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale On the morning of June 30, 1860, the residents of the Kent household woke to discover that 3-year-old Saville Kent had gone missing from his bed. After a feverish search of the ground, the little boy's body was discovered, smothered, stabbed, nearly decapitated, and stuffed down the privy in the backyard. After a largely botched investigation...
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 10/03/2008
House of horrors The Suspicions of Mr Whicher or The Murder at Road Hill HouseBy Kate Summerscale, Bloomsbury, Rs 650Kate Summerscale’s book has won the Samuel Johnson Prize for 2008. Deservedly so. It is close to being a masterpiece as a piece of research that is written up as a detective story.The ingredients are all that of a classic country house murder mystery. On a summer’s night in the...
Murderati (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
By Louise Ure For the criminally-minded among you, my friend Jude Greber (Gillian Roberts) wrote me recently that she’d just read “The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher," a nonfiction account of a homicide in England in the 1860's, which was full...
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
... of Thaïs which they devised for Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and l'Opéra de Montréal. Monica Whicher, who last graced our stage with her deeply compassionate performance as the Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia, will sing the role of Thaïs. Aaron St. Clair Nicholson, who returns to POV after his recent Met debut, will portray the doomed monk Athanaël.For subscription information and...
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
... of Thaïs which they devised for Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and l'Opéra de Montréal. Monica Whicher, who last graced our stage with her deeply compassionate performance as the Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia, will sing the role of Thaïs. Aaron St. Clair Nicholson, who returns to POV after his recent Met debut, will portray the doomed monk Athanaël.For subscription information and...
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
... of Thaïs which they devised for Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and l'Opéra de Montréal. Monica Whicher, who last graced our stage with her deeply compassionate performance as the Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia, will sing the role of Thaïs. Aaron St. Clair Nicholson, who returns to POV after his recent Met debut, will portray the doomed monk Athanaël.For subscription information and...
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
... of Thaïs which they devised for Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and l'Opéra de Montréal. Monica Whicher, who last graced our stage with her deeply compassionate performance as the Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia, will sing the role of Thaïs. Aaron St. Clair Nicholson, who returns to POV after his recent Met debut, will portray the doomed monk Athanaël.For subscription information and...
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
... of Thaïs which they devised for Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and l'Opéra de Montréal. Monica Whicher, who last graced our stage with her deeply compassionate performance as the Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia, will sing the role of Thaïs. Aaron St. Clair Nicholson, who returns to POV after his recent Met debut, will portray the doomed monk Athanaël.For subscription information and...
BPS Research Digest (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
I'm currently enjoying The Suspicions of Mr Whicher - the real-life English country house murder story by Kate Summerscale - and to my delight I've discovered that it contains some wonderful insights into Victorian attitudes to mental illness. We learn, for example, that the Victorians believed madness was generally passed down from the mother, and that the most likely recipient was the daughter....
