John Heneage Jesse's Books

One April evening in 1779, Martha Ray, the pretty mistress of a famous aristocrat, was shot dead at point-blank range by a young clergyman who then attempted to take his own life. Instead he was arrested, tried and hanged. In this fascinating new book, John Brewer, a leading historian of eighteenth-century England, asks what this peculiar little story was all about... Brewer, in tracing Ray's fate through these protean changes in journalism, memoir, and melodrama, offers an unforgettable account of the relationships among the three protagonists and their different places in English society--and assesses the shifting balance between storytelling and fact, past and present that inheres in all history." -- Amazon.com viewed December 7, 2020.

Book's by John Heneage Jesse

Memoirs of the Court of England, from the Revolution in 1688 to the Death of George the Second

Memoirs of the Court of England, from the Revolution in 1688 to the Death of George the Second

A Sentimental Murder

A Sentimental Murder

Memoirs of the Court of England During the Reign of the Stuarts Including the Protectorate

Memoirs of the Court of England During the Reign of the Stuarts Including the Protectorate

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