Footnote 1, Chapter 2, of the author's Victorian Suicide: Mad Crimes and Sad Histories, which Princeton University Press published in 1988. It has been included in the Victorian Web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
Forbes Winslow, The Anatomy Of Suicide(London: Henry Renshaw, 1840), p. 132. Attitudes like Winslow's persisted throughout the Victiorian period. See also A. Wynter in Curiosities Of Toil, 2 vols. (London, 1875), vol. 2, pp.245-46, and William Wynn Westcott Suicide: Its History, Literature, Jurisprudence, Causation and Prevention, A Social Science Treatise (London: H.K. Lewis, 1885), 141ff.
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