Suffocating Suspense
Richard Davenport-Hines, 16 March 2000
Cult Criminals: The Newgate Novels 1830-47
by Juliet John.
Routledge, 2750 pp., £399, December 1998,0 415 14383 7 Show More
by Juliet John.
Routledge, 2750 pp., £399, December 1998,
“... in Lucretia (1846), in which the heir of the St John’s Laughton estate marries the heiress of Vernon Grange. ‘Two sons were born. To the elder was destined his father’s inheritance – to the younger the maternal property. One house is not large enough for two heirs. Nothing could exceed the pride of the father as a St John, except the pride of the ... ”