Au revoir now darlint : the letters of Edith Thompson
2023
Books, Manuscripts
A hundred years ago, on the night of 3rd October 1922, a thirty-two-year-old clerk named Percy Thompson was stabbed to death as he walked home to his suburban villa in Ilford. With him was his wife, twenty-eight-year-old Edith. His killer was Edith's lover: Frederick Bywaters, a merchant seaman aged twenty. Bywaters was hanged for murder on 9th January 1923. So too was Edith Thompson.There was no evidence, of any kind, that she was involved with the killing. What condemned Edith were the letters that she had written to her lover, which were interpreted by the law as incitement to murder. These letters are remarkable documents. Charged with the vitality of Edith's voice, they are moving, perplexing, maddening, banal, spectacularly sensual, infused with a stream-of-consciousness immediacy. And they have never been collected in print, until now.
Main title:
Au revoir now darlint : the letters of Edith Thompson / edited by Laura Thompson.
Author:
Thompson, Laura, 1964-, editor
Imprint:
London : Unbound, 2023.
Collation:
320 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781800182462 (hbk)
Dewey class:
364.15230942173364.152
LC class:
HV6535
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3262105
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