Lucy Worsley

A Very British Murder

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  • Alejandra Espinohas quoted3 years ago
    Perhaps appropriately, then, our two bookends will be writers. We’ll start in the late Georgian age, with Thomas De Quincey and his essay ‘On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts’. De Quincey was inspired by the so-called Ratcliffe Highway Murders of 1811, a multiple killing that saw the beginning of the gruesome correlation between lurid reporting of a crime and a massive spike in the sales of newspapers
  • Alejandra Espinohas quoted3 years ago
    He commits his crime out of passion for his secretary, but he’s really driven by fear of public shame: it’s easier for him to poison his wife than to go through the public scandal of divorcing her. The archetypal murderer, in Orwell’s mind, was a devious but apparently quiet and respectable little man,
  • Alejandra Espinohas quoted3 years ago
    A dark, shameful deed, the last resort of the desperate or a vile tool of the greedy
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