A Walking Shadow: The Remarkable Double Life of Edward Oxford by Jenny Sinclair

Description ‘Nothing else will be talked of but me for a long time! What a great character I shall be!’ -Edward Oxford, June 1840 In 1840 eighteen-year-old Edward Oxford tried to kill the young Queen Victoria in the first of seven separate attempts on her life. While Oxford escaped the noose, he spent over twenty-five years in the notorious Bedlam mental asylum before being illegally exiled to Australia, where he assumed a new name and a new life – and took his secret to the grave. Journalist Jenny Sinclair uncovers Edward Oxford’s complex double life in a tale of infamy and madness that spans the Victorian era, from Dickens’ London to Marvellous Melbourne. Specifications: Publisher: Arcade Publications Year: 2024 (first published 2012) Format: Paperback Pages: 175pp ISBN: 9780987239099 Other titles in this series: Chasing The Rainbow: EW Cole and the Bourke Street Book Arcade by Lisa Lang Making Modern Melbourne: From Illegal Village to Marvellous Metropolis by Jenny Lee Madame Brussels: Meet Marvellous Melbourne’s ‘Queen of Harlotry’ by LM Robinson MacRobertsonland: Melbourne Chocolate Entrepreneur Macpherson Robertson by Jill Robertson Melbourne Remade: The Gentrification of the City CBD by Seamus O’Hanlon A Forger’s Tale: The Extraordinary Story of Henry Savery, Australia’s First Novelist by Rod Howard The Hanging of Minnie Thwaites: Ballad of the Brunswick Baby Killer by Judith Rodriguez Composite City: Arcade Almanac 2024 by Assorted Authors