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Broadside: A dreadful warning to parents...

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Broadside: A dreadful warning to parents...

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Title Broadside: A dreadful warning to parents...
Publisher J.K. Pollock, Printer, North Shields
Time Period circa 19th century
Description Full title: A dreadful warning to parents. Being an account of the courtship of James Thomson of Northamptonshire, and Eliza Stewart, daughter of a rich farmer, near Retford, in England. Also an account how her sweetheart saved her life, and nearly lost his own. Likewise an account how her ungrateful father banished Thomson from his house and forced his daughter to marry another gentleman who had a considerable estate--whereupon she became melancholy; and her unfortunate lover being unable to stand the shock, lost his reason and hung himself upon a tree near her father's house--she being the first that saw the sad sight clasped him in her arms, and immediately died.
General Subject Area Crime
Extent 1 broadside (16.75 x 5.5 inches)
Institution Kent State University
Repository Special Collections and Archives
Finding aid title Finding Aid for the British Criminal Broadsides collection
Access Rights This digital object is owned by Kent State University and may be protected by U.S. Copyright law (Title 17, USC). Please include proper citation and credit for use of this item. Use in publications or productions is prohibited without written permission from Kent State University. Please contact the Department of Special Collections and Archives for more information.
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Format of Original document
Subject Suicide
Provenance British Criminal Broadsides collection
Genre/Format broadsides
Geographical Location United Kingdom. England

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