gardening, here, here
gas lamps, here, here, here
general election, here, here, here, here, here
Geneva Convention, here
George V, King, here
German New Guinea, here
Gilbert, Inspector George, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Gill, Charles, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Gill, Reginald, here, here
Gissing, George, here, here
Gladstone, William Ewart, here
Globe, here
Goldsworthy, Henry, here, here
Goodenough, Len, here
Goring, George and Olga, here
Grace, W. G., here
Gradley, William, here
Grange Road school, here, here, here, here
Grantham, William, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Gray, Ernest, here
Greenaway, Isaac, & Sons, here
Greenwich Observatory, here
Griffin, Dr John Joseph, here, here, here
Guano Works, here
Gueudecourt, here
Guthrie, Thomas Anstey, here
Hadleigh colony, here, here, here
Hadley, Captain, here, here, here
Halfpenny, Miss, here
Halfpenny Marvel, here
Hall, Granville Stanley, here, here
Hamlet, here
Hampshire Telegraph, here
Handbook for the Instruction of Attendants on the Insane, here
Hardie, James Keir, here, here
Hardy, PC George, here
Hardy, Thomas, here, here, here
Hare, Sherlock, here, here
Harmsworth, Alfred, here, here
Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, publishes Jude the Obscure, here, here
Harris, Margaret, here
Hay, Rev. Allen, here
Hayward, Harriet, here, here, here, here
Hayward, John, here
Heliopolis, here, here, here
Herd, Ernie, here
hereditary criminality, here, here, here, here, here
Herring, Lieutenant-Colonel Sydney, here, here
Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire Reporter, here
Hewlett, Ben, here
Hewson, John, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Hitchman, Francis, here
HMAS Australia, here, here, here
HMAS Swan, here, here
HMAT Ulysses, here, here
Hobson, Private Byron, here, here, here, here
Hodgson Burnett, Frances, here
Hollamby, George, here, here
Holloway gaol, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Home Office, here, here, here, here, here
and Coombes case, here, here, here
and Knowles case, here
homosexual assault, here
Horlock, Joseph, here, here, here, here
House of Commons, here
Hueffer (Ford), Ford Madox, here, here, here, here
hypnotism, here
Ibsen, Henrik, here
Illustrated London News, here, here
Illustrated Police Budget, here
Illustrated Police News, here
Independent Labour Party, here, here
India, here, here, here, here
Indus, River, here
industrial schools, here
infanticide, here, here
insanity pleas
and ‘cerebral irritation’, here, here
and committals to Broadmoor, here
and ‘homicidal mania’, here, here, here, here
incidence of, here
and ‘irresistible impulse’, here, here
and Robert’s defence, here, here
Islington waxworks, here
Jack the Ripper, here, here
Jack Wright and the Fortune Hunters of the Red Sea, here, here, here, here, here
Jackson, Henry, here
Jacobs, Eleanor, here
Jacobs, W. W., here
James, Henry, here
Janet, Pierre, here
Joe Phoenix’s Unknown, here, here, here, here
Johnson, George, here
Journal of Mental Science, here, here, here
Joyce, James, here
Karachi, here
Keiller’s marmalade and jam works, here
Kennedy, Dr Alfred, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Kennedy, Justice William Rann, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
and penny dreadfuls, here, here, here
Kipling, Rudyard, here
kleptomania, here
‘knocking down ginger’, here, here
Knowles, Patrick, here
Koczula, Paul, here
Lancet, The, here, here, here
Laseron, Sergeant Charles, here
Last Shot, The, here
Lawrence John, here, here, here, here
Le Havre, here
leapfrog, here
Leeds Times, here
Leggatt, Edward, here
Lemnos, here
Lewis, Charles Carne, here, here, here
and Peculiar People sect, here
Leytonstone Express, here
Liberal Party, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Light Ahead, here, here
Limehouse, here, here, here, here
Lingard, Private Ray, here, here
Little Elsie the Skirt Dancer, here
Liverpool, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here see also Toxteth Park
Liverpool Arms inquest, here, here
Lloyd’s Weekly, here, here, here
Lombroso, Cesare, here, here, here
London, Jack, here, here
London Daily News, here, here, here
London Gazette, here
London Standard, here
Lord’s cricket ground, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Lowe, Jonathan, here
Lynch, Private Edward, here
Machray, Robert, here
Maclean, Roderick, here, here, here, here
McNaughten, Robert, here
McPherson, Duncan, here
Macy, John William, here
Macy, Mary, here, here, here
Madame Tussaud’s, here
Mafeking, siege of, here, here, here
maggots, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
magic-lantern shows, here
Marylebone Cricket Club, here
Masterman, Charles, here, here, here, here
matricides, here
Maudsley, Henry, here, here, here
Mauerberger, Isaac Jacob, here
May, Mary, here
Melbourne, here, here, here, here
Mellish, Detective Inspector George, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
melodramas, here, here
Melton, George, here
mesmerism, here
Mesmerist Detective, The, here
Messines Ridge, here
Mile End Old Town, here
military bands, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Military Medals, here, here, here, here, here
Milne, A. A., here
Milton, John, here
miners’ strike, here
Minor, Dr William Chester, here, here
Monash, General John, here, here
Morel, Bénédict, here
Morley, Henry, here
Morrison, Arthur, here, here, here, here
Morrow, Herbert, here, here
Motherwell Times, here
moving pictures, here
Mulville, Alfred, here, here
Mulville, Bertha, see Smith, Bertha
Mulville, Harry, here, here
Mulville, Isabelle (née Rockey), here
Murchison, Kenneth, here, here
Mu
ssy, Carmello, here
Myers, Frederic, here
Nana Glen, New South Wales, here, here, here, here
Nancy school, here
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC), here, here
National Steamship Company, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Neaves, Henry Herbert, here
‘New Boy, the’, here
New York Sun, here
New York Times, here
New York Tribune, here
Newcastle, New South Wales, here, here, here
Newgate gaol, here, here, here
Newport, Wales, here
News of the World, here, here, here
news vendor, assaults policeman, here
Nicolson, Dr David, here, here, here
Nisbet, J. F., here
Nordau, Max, here
North Street board school, here
Notting Hill, here, here
Nottingham Evening Post, here
Oakes, Richard, here
Ocean Steamships, here
O’Connell, Maurice, here
Odam’s chemical manure works, here
Oedipus, here
Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services, here
Old Bailey, here, here, here, here, here
and committals to Broadmoor, here
Coombes trial, here, here, here, here
Orange, William, here
Ordnance Arms pub, here
Orestes, here
Orpwood, Sergeant Charles, here
Oxford, Edward, here
Oxford English Dictionary, here
Pall Mall Gazette, here, here, here
Patten, William G., here
pawnbrokers, here, here, here, here, here, here
Pearson, Charles, here, here
Peculiar People sect, here, here
penny dreadfuls (penny bloods), here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Australians and, here, here
inquest juries and, here
Robert Coombes and, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
use of street slang, here
warped chivalric code, here
People, The, here
Perseus, here
Pett, George, here, here
Pier Hill fairground, here, here
Pike, Charles Leach, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
‘pitch and toss’, here
Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette, here
Plaistow marshes, here, here
Plimsoll, Samuel, here
Pozières, here, here
Price, Julius M., here
Prisoner of Zenda, The, here
Puerto de la Luz, here
Punch, here, here
Quarterly Review, here
quicklime, here
Ralpho, Signor, here
Read, Harry, here
Read, James Canham, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Reading gaol, here
Reading Gas Company, here
Reading Mercury, here
Regent’s Canal, here
Renton, Wood, here
Revenged at Last, here
Reynolds’s Newspaper, here
Richards, William, here, here
Rider Haggard, Henry, here, here
RMS Otranto, here
‘robbers and thieves’, here
Robertson, James, here, here, here, here, here, here
Robertson, Rosina, here, here, here, here
Robinson Crusoe, here
Rock Rider, The, here, here
Rodgers, Frank, here, here, here
Rosebery, Lord, here, here
Rothschild, Lord, here
Rowland, Frideswide, here
Rowntree, Joseph, here
Royal Albert Dock, here, here, here, here, here, here
Royal Australian Navy, here, here
Royal Navy, here
Royal Victoria Dock, here, here, here, here
Rutland, Duchess of, here
St Andrew’s, Plaistow, here
St Bride’s school, Liverpool, here
St George, here
St James’s Epistle, here
St James’s Gazette, here, here
St Martin’s Mission, here
St Vincent, here
Salisbury, Lord, here
Salmon, Edward G., here
Salvation Army, here, here, here, here, here
see also Hadleigh colony
Sandhurst Royal Military College, here
sanitary officers, here, here
Saturday Review, here, here, here, here
Saunderson, Reginald, here, here
Scott, Walter, here, here
Secret of Castle Coucy, The, here, here
Shakespeare, William, here, here
Sharman, Charles Crank, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Shaw, Rev. Francis Longdon, here, here, here, here
Shaw, George Bernard, here
Sheffield Independent, here
Shellshear, Captain Cyril, here, here
shellshock, here, here
Sherwood, Frederick, here, here, here, here, here
Shultz, Thomas, here
Simon, Dr Jules, here
Sims, George, here, here, here
Smith, Bertha, here, here
Smith, Harold William, here, here, here, here, here, here
Smith, Jesse Weber, here
Smith, Pearl May, here
Smith, Samuel, here, here
Society for Psychical Research, here
Somerset House, here, here
somnambulism, here
Sorrell, Corporal Harold, here, here
Southend, here, here, here, here
Spectator, here, here
Spurrier, Henry, here
SS America, here
SS Egypt, here, here
SS England, here, here, here, here
SS Erin, here
SS France, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
SS Holland, here
SS Ionic, here
SS London Belle, here
SS Rossano, here
SS Spain, here, here, here
Star, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Burrage interview, here
Staten Island, here
Stead, W. T., here, here
Steevens, George, here
Stephens, Reginald, here
Stephenson, Guy, here, here, here, here, here
Stevenson, Robert Louis, here, here, here, here, here, here
Stock Street school, here, here
Stoddart, Andrew, here
stokers, ships’, here, here
Strand Magazine, here
Stratford Express, here, here
street vendors, here, here, here
stretcher-bearers, here, here, here, here
Stutfield, Hugh E. M., here
Suez Canal, here, here, here
suffragettes, here
suicides, rise in number of, here
Sully, James, here, here
Sun, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Sunday Referee, here
Susman, Private Eric, here
Suvla Bay, here
Sydney, here, here, here, here, here, here
Sydney Mail, here
Sydney Morning Herald, here
Tate & Lyle sugar refinery, here
tennis, here, here, here
Thames, River, freezes over, here, here
Thames Iron Works Shipbuilding Company, here, here, here
Theatre Royal, Stratford, here
Times, The, here, here
Towells, Mick, here
Townsend, Thomas Henry, here
Toxteth Park, here, here, here
trench foot, here
Truelove, Charles, here
Tucknor,
R. J., here
Tunbridge Wells, here
Tunmarsh Lane, here
Turpin, Dick, here
Twain, Mark, here
Twort, PC Robert, here, here, here, here
Under a Floating Island, here
unemployment, here, here
Union Jack, here, here
Verne, Jules, here, here, here
Victoria, Queen, here, here, here, here, here
Vincent, James, here
Volckers, H. A., here
Volunteer Defence Corps, here, here
Waldie, Captain George, here
Walker, Dr George, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Wandsworth prison, here, here
War Graves Commission, here
Weekly Irish Times, here
Wells, H. G., here
West Ham election, here, here, here, here
West Ham Herald, here, here, here
West Ham magistrates’ court, here, here, here
West Ham United FC, here
Westcott, Wynn, here
Westminster Abbey, here
White, Ada, here
White, William, here, here
White Ridley, Sir Matthew, here
Whittaker, Frederick, here
Wilberforce, Canon Basil, here
Wilde, Oscar, here, here, here, here, here
Wimbledon lawn tennis championships, here
Windsor police, here
Winslow, Lyttelton Forbes, here, here
Witch of Fermoyle, The, here
Wood, Rev. Hugh, here
Wortley, Richard, here
Yates, Rev., here
Zola, Emile, here
A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR
Kate Summerscale is the author of the number one bestseller, The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2008, the Galaxy British Book of the Year Award, a Richard & Judy Book Club pick and adapted into a major ITV drama. Her first book, the bestselling The Queen of Whale Cay, won a Somerset Maugham award and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Award. Her third book, Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace, was a Sunday Times bestseller. Kate Summerscale was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2010. She lives in London.
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BY THE SAME AUTHOR
The Queen of Whale Cay
The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
Mrs Robinson’s Disgrace
Sketch of the Coombes family home at 35 Cave Road, Plaistow, published in Lloyd’s Weekly Newspaper on 21 July 1895, four days after the arrest of Robert and Nathaniel Coombes.
The Thames Iron Works, the West Ham shipbuilding company at which Robert worked as a ‘plater’s boy’ in June 1895, and (below) the Japanese battleship Fuji Yama under construction at the yard that month.
Newspaper sketches of Robert and Nattie Coombes, aged 13 and 12 respectively, in July 1895.