Attempt to Assassinate the Queen and Prince Albert.

[EDWARD OXFORD]

Published by Printed by J. Wilson, [1840]

About this Item

Broadside, 270 x 210 mm. laid down on card. An unrecorded street broadside. The first of eight attempts on the Queen's life. Oxford was charged with treason but found not guilty by reason of insanity. After a spell in Bethlem and then Broadmoor, he was transported to Australia in 1868 where, under an assumed name John Freeman, he married a widow and became a churchwarden. He wrote articles under the name Liber for the Melbourne Argus on the city's slums, markets and racetracks which were published as Lights and Shadows of Melbourne Life [1888]. He died in 1900. The identification of John Freeman as Edward Oxford was only made in 1987 in an article by F.B. Smith, Lights and Shadows in the Life of John Freeman, published in Victorian Studies.

Seller Inventory # 44589

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Attempt to Assassinate the Queen and Prince Albert.
• Publisher: Printed by J. Wilson, [1840]
• Seller catalogs:
  • Ephemera