A Sentimental Murder
Subtitle: Love and Madness in the Eighteenth Century
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: May 19, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780374529772
First sentence: JOHN MONTAGU, 4th Earl of Sandwich, was a tall gangling man with 'strong legs and arms' and a ruddy appearance that led the novelist Frances Burney, when she first met him in 1775, to compare him with a rough-hewn Jack Tar: 'he is a tall, stout man &amp; looks weather-proof as any sailor in the navy'.