Summary of Kate Summerscale's The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher

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#1 On Friday, 29 June 1860, Samuel and Mary Kent were asleep in their house in Road, five miles from Trowbridge. They were bedridden with a baby on the first floor. Their eldest daughter, five-year-old Mary Amelia, shared their room.

#2 On Friday, the Kents' nursemaid, Emily Doel, put the children to bed. Half an hour later, Gough carried Eveline up to the nursery and put her in the cot next to her own. The five-year-old Mary Amelia was put to bed in the room she shared with her parents.

#3 The family was asleep in the nursery when the comet passed through the sky. At 10 p. m. , Mr Kent opened the yard door and unchained his black Newfoundland guard dog.

#4 On the night of the murders, the dog in the house barked, but nobody heard anything out of the ordinary. The sun rose two or three minutes before 4 a. m. The door was safe as usual, and the window was a little bit open.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 22, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669393290

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Insights on Kate Summerscale's The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

On Friday, 29 June 1860, Samuel and Mary Kent were asleep in their house in Road, five miles from Trowbridge. They were bedridden with a baby on the first floor. Their eldest daughter, five-year-old Mary Amelia, shared their room.

#2

On Friday, the Kents' nursemaid, Emily Doel, put the children to bed. Half an hour later, Gough carried Eveline up to the nursery and put her in the cot next to her own. The five-year-old Mary Amelia was put to bed in the room she shared with her parents.

#3

The family was asleep in the nursery when the comet passed through the sky. At 10 p. m. , Mr Kent opened the yard door and unchained his black Newfoundland guard dog.

#4

On the night of the murders, the dog in the house barked, but nobody heard anything out of the ordinary. The sun rose two or three minutes before 4 a. m. The door was safe as usual, and the window was a little bit open.

#5

At around 7 a. m. , Elizabeth Gough said, she woke up, dressed, read a chapter of the Bible, and said her prayers. She then went to check on the children, and found that Saville was not in the nursery.

#6

When Gough knocked on the children’s door at 7:20, he asked if Saville was with them. They said he wasn’t, and asked whether Mrs Kent knew that he was missing. She didn’t.

#7

On the morning of the kidnapping, Samuel put on a black overcoat and set out in his phaeton, a dashing, four-wheeled carriage with a skimpy body and high back wheels, pulled by the red mare. He went to Southwick, where he