The doctor’s wife is dead: a peculiar marriage, a suspicious death, and a murder trial in nineteenth-century Ireland

ANDREW TIERNEY Penguin Ireland £14.99 ISBN 9781844883929 Reviewed by: Dean Jobb Dean Jobb, author of Empire of deception, teaches non-fiction writing at the University of King’s College, Nova Scotia. It was a single death among hundreds in famine-ravaged County Tipperary in the spring of 1849. Ellen Langley, wife of Dr Charles Langley of Nenagh, died ... Read more