Deadly sensationalism

Eleanor Fitzsimons examines female suicide by drowning in the Victorian era. The words of medical doctor and coroner William Wynn Westcott, articulated in 1885, still hold true today: ‘In every age of the world, and in the history of every country, we find instances more or less numerous of men and women who, preferring the ... Read more

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