In 1840 eighteen-year-old Edward Oxford tried to kill the young Queen Victoria in the first of seven separate attempts on her life. While Oxford escaped the noose, he spent over twenty-five years in the notorious Bedlam mental asylum before being illegally exiled to Australia, where he assumed a new name and a new life — and took his secret to the grave.
Journalist Jenny Sinclair uncovers Edward Oxford’s complex double life in a tale of infamy and madness that spans the Victorian era, from Dickens’ London to Marvellous Melbourne.
Format: A6 format (150 x 105 mm)
ISBN: 978-0-9872390-9-9
Extent: 176pp paperback
Genre: Australian non-fiction
Publication date: 2012, 2024 (revised edition)
Author bio: Jenny Sinclair is a Melbourne writer of fiction and non-fiction. Her books are Much Ado About Melbourne (Affirm Press, 2015) and A Walking Shadow (Arcade Publications, 2012). She is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne, where she is writing about Australian historical fiction and completing a historical novel.
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