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BRITISH LIBRARY CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION DATA
The history of suicide in England, 16501850.
Part II, volumes 58.
1. Suicide England History 18th century. 2. Suicide England History
19th century.
I. Merrick, Jeffrey. II. Lee, Daryl.
362.280942-dc22
ISBN-13: 978-1-85196-981-4 (set)
DOI: 10.4324/9781003113959
Typeset by Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Limited
CONTENTS
Anon., Inquisition on one who Hanged Himself, The Coroners Guide (1756)
Anon., The Durham Tragedy (1760)
Charles Collignon, Of Suicide, Medicina Politica (1765)
William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England (1769)
William Eden, Of Suicide, Principles of Penal Law (1771)
Anon., Suicide, a Poem (1773)
Anon., Suicide, an Elegy (1775)
Anon., Concerning the Laws and the Coroners Practice in Cases of Suicide, Considerations on Some of the Laws Relating to the Office of a Coroner (1776)
Thomas Warton, The Suicide, Poems (1777)
[Herbert Croft], Love and Madness (1780)
Anon., The Suicide, Adventures of a Hackney Coach (1781)
Anon., A Letter to a Gentleman who had Attempted to Commit Suicide, Literary Amusements (1782)
Anon., Reuben, or The Suicide (1787)
William Rowley, On Suicide, A Treatise on Female Diseases (1788)
Jane Timbury, The Suicide, The Philanthropic Rambler (1790)
John Coates, An Answer to the Justification of Suicide (1792)
Charles James, Suicide Rejected, Poems (1792)
Charles Pigott, Suicide, A Political Dictionary (1795)
Hannah More, Robert and Richard (1796)
[John Gorton], Tubal to Seba: The Negro Suicide (1797)
[Joseph James], Extraordinary Case of Suicide (1797)
Suicide, Encyclopaedia Britannica (1797)
Part III: Newspapers and Magazines
George Colman, The Genius, St. Jamess Chronicle, 1012 October 1761
Thomas Chatterton, The Unfortunate Fathers, Town and Country Magazine (January 1770)
John Wesley, Letter to the General Evening Post, 224 July 1790
Anonymous and Pseudonymous Letters and Extracts
Letter to the London Daily Advertiser, 21 June 1751
General Evening Post, 1720 August 1751
Of Suicide, Reads Weekly Journal, 14 October 1752
Letter to Grays Inn Journal, 24 March 1753
Advertisement, Gentlemans Magazine, 25 (January 1755)
Connoisseur, 9 January 1755
Letter to the London Evening Post, 235 October 1755
Some Observations on the Causes of Suicide, Gentlemans Magazine, 26 (January 1756)
Letter to the World, 9 September 1756
Letter to the World, 23 September 1756
Reflections on Suicide, London Magazine, 31 (March 1762)
A Letter to a Friend, on Suicide and Madness, Gentlemans Magazine, 32 (April 1762)
Reflections on Suicide (continued), London Magazine, 31 (April 1762)
Thoughts on Self-Preservation, with Regard to Suicide, Annual Register, 6 (1764)
Letter to the Public Advertiser, 23 June 1764
Letter to the Public Advertiser, 29 June 1765
Letter to the Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser, 26 December 1765
On Self-Murder, Public Advertiser, 16 August 1768
Letter to the Town and Country Magazine, 2 (February 1770)
Hoeys Dublin Mercury, 1013 August 1771
Letter to Hoeys Dublin Mercury, 1517 August 1771
An Essay on Suicide Committed by those in whom the Least Symptoms of Lunacy Never Appeared, Westminster Journal, 28 December 1771
Thoughts on Suicide, Town and Country Magazine, 4 (January 1772)
Essay on Suicide, Westminster Journal, 4, 11, 25 January 1772
On Suicide, Morning Chronicle, 25 July 1772
To Zeno, Morning Chronicle, 9 September 1772
Letter to the Morning Chronicle, 12 September 1772
Letter to the Town and Country Magazine, 4 (November 1772)
Letter to the Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser, 10 November 1772
Reflections on Suicide, Morning Chronicle, 1, 3, 8, 10, 15 August 1774
Letter to the St. Jamess Chronicle, 22 November 1774
Letter to the Morning Chronicle, 28 November 1774
Letter to the Public Advertiser, 12 December 1774
Letter to Lloyds Evening Post, 1417 April 1775
Letter to the Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser, 30 December 1777
On Suicide, Morning Chronicle, 21 July 1778
The Mock Suicide, a Ludicrous but Recent Anecdote, Morning Chronicle, 8 September 1778
Letter to the St. Jamess Chronicle, 17 November 1778
Letter to the St. Jamess Chronicle, 4 April 1779
Letter to the St. Jamess Chronicle, 9 November 1779
Whitehall Evening Post, 15 February 1780
A Petition without Committee or Association to the King, Lords, and Commons in Parliament Assembled, Public Advertiser, 20 March 1780
Letter to the St. Jamess Chronicle, 25 July 1780
Letter to the St. Jamess Chronicle, 10 August 1780
On Moral Obligation, Gazetteer and New Daily Advertiser, 18 August 1781