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A Victorian murder. A Victorian madman. Today's judgment. Gateshead, Apr 1866. The Apprentice of Split Crow Lane can take the forgotten case of a kid murder in 1866 as a springboard to delve deeply in to the pysche of the Victorians. What Jane Housham confirms in this exploration of guilt, sexual deviance and madness is a medical diagnosis that continues to be ripe for the challenging and a phrase that provokes even our liberal modern common sense. Arranged around Gateshead, this is a revelatory social record of the North - an area growing in industry and bloating with immigration, where manufacturing plant personnel are tinged blue and yellowish by chemicals, the first tabloids are published, children are left exclusively by working parents and haystack fires sweep the region in rebellion against the introduction of the authorities drive. Into this scenery a five-year-old Irish gal called Sarah Melvin models out on the fell to consider her daddy, and a troubled young man makes a frightening leap of logic to save his own pores and skin. Advised here for the first time, this is an extraordinary story of sexual deviance and murder. In lively, empathic prose, Jane Housham explores psychiatry, the justice system and the multimedia in mid-Victorian Britain to expose a astonishingly modern state of affairs.
