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 25 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.
Includes bibliographical references.