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Bring Him In Mad
Bring Him In Mad
Bring Him In Mad
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“Bring Him In Mad” is a fictionalised version of the Windham lunacy trial of 1861, which lasted for thirty-four days and caused a national sensation in it's day.

Eccentric young Norfolk squire, William Windham of Felbrigg Hall, was dragged through this lunacy inquisition by his aristocratic relatives who abhorred his infatuation with Agnes Willoughby, a notorious society courtesan of the kind known as “pretty horsebreakers”. His relatives sought to strip him of both his liberty and his rich landed inheritance.

The book tells the story of Windham and the events leading up to, and following, the trial. Packed with incident and intrigue, it has comic and salacious elements, as well as a serious reminder of the relationship between madness and morality, which is as relevant today as it was in Victorian times.

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PublisherRussell Croft
Release dateDec 20, 2012
ISBN9781301509317
Bring Him In Mad
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Russell Croft

Russell Croft has followed an unusual career path. He started out as a solicitor and later switched to being an academic historian. He now works for himself, as a writer of Victorian historical fiction with a legal backdrop. Having lived here, there and everywhere, Russell is now happily resettled in his home town of Leeds. He likes to walk in the Yorkshire Dales, while imagining situations to throw George Phinney (the solicitor narrator of his stories) into. Russell is passionate about history and is constantly reading and researching into different aspects. Find out what is currently interesting him from his blog. He does not intend returning to the legal profession.

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