Description
‘Nothing else will be talked of but me for a long time! What a great character I shall be!’ -Edward Oxford, June 1840
In 1840 eighteen-year-old Edward Oxford tried to kill the young Queen Victoria in the first of seven separate attempts on her life. While Oxford escaped the noose, he spent over twenty-five years in the notorious Bedlam mental asylum before being illegally exiled to Australia, where he assumed a new name and a new life – and took his secret to the grave.
Journalist Jenny Sinclair uncovers Edward Oxford’s complex double life in a tale of infamy and madness that spans the Victorian era, from Dickens’ London to Marvellous Melbourne.
Specifications:
Publisher: Arcade Publications
Year: 2024 (first published 2012)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 175pp
ISBN: 9780987239099
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