Husbands, wives, and lawyers: Gender roles and professional representation in Trollope and the Adelaide Bartlett case

9 See Bridges and Hartman.

to Testimony of Edwin Bartlett, Sr., Evidence for Prosecution in Bart 101-14. Original trial notes also part of CRIM 1/23/7.

1 1 See prosecution exhibit CRIM 1/23/7, a letter dated 27 December Sunday night in which Adelaide tells Bartlett that she has "neither forgotten nor forgiven the past." 12 See prosecution exhibit CRIM 1/23/7, a letter dated 9 December 1885 from Edwin to his partner, Mr. Edwards.

13 In fact, Leach misdiagnosed Edwin. The coroner's report shows lead, not mercury, to be the cause of his initial illness. There would be no reason for Edwin to take lead, but Police Constable Tom Ralph found a bottle in Adelaide's possession at the time of her arrest.

14 The Attorney-General, Mr. Poland, Mr. R. S. Wright, and Mr. Moloney were counsel for the prosecution on the part of the Crown. Mr. Edward Clarke, Q. C., Mr. Mead, and Mr. Beal appeared for the defense.

15 Letter from Edwin Bartlett to George Dyson quoted in Bart 135. The original is preserved as part of CRIM 1/23/7. 6 This new will was drawn up 3 September 1885.

17 We never hear Adelaide's voice at the trial. Her words are always reported or quoted by someone else. In part this is due to her refusal to cooperate at the inquest when she could have offered an explanation. At the trial, she could not have spoken in her defense. For more on English criminal law see Emsley.

ls If the name Justice Wills seems familiar, it is because he was the judge at the Oscar Wilde-Alfred Taylor trial ten years later. He sentenced Wilde to two years of hard labor and was booed by the courtroom spectators. His puritanical intolerance is evident in both cases.

19 The book was Esoteric Anthropology (The Mysteries of Man): A Comprehensive and Confidential Treatise on the Structure, Functions, Passional Attractions and Perversions, True and False Physical and Social Conditions, and the Most Intimate Relations of Men and Women by Thomas Low Nicholas, MD, F.A.S.

20 Here, Adelaide's age at the time of her marriage is particularly important. If she was 16, Bartlett would seem to be more responsible for her guidance than if she was almost 21.

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