Secret sins : sex, violence and society in Carmarthenshire, 1870-1920
(2012)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : University of Wales Press, 2012
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781783165452 MWT15780857, 1783165456 15780857
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Sleepy rustic Carmarthenshire was secretly a hotbed of debauchery, violence and drunkenness according to Russell Davies in a new edition of his very successful book, 'Secret Sins'. Behind the facade of idyllic rural life, there was a twilight world of mental illness, suicide, crime, vicious assaults, infanticide, cruelty and other assorted acts of depravity. This almost anecdotal historical study is often funny, sometimes disturbing, always revealing
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