The murder of Elizabeth Chantrelle was a crime committed by Frenchman Eugène Marie Chantrelle in 1878 in Edinburgh. Eugène was Elizabeth's former teacher who had married her when she was 17; on 2 Janu
Elizabeth Chantrelle c. 1876
Eugène Chantrelle c. 1867
Eugène Chantrelle around the time of the trial in 1878
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is an 1886 Gothic horror novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. It follows Gabriel John Utterson, a London-based legal practitioner who investigates a
Murder of Elizabeth Chantrelle
…and Joseph Bell, and hanged at Calton Prison. The case is said to be one of the inspirations for Robert Louis Stevenson to write the literary classic Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Eugène Chantrelle was born in 1834 in Nantes, and became a teacher of French at the private Newington Academy in Edinburgh. He began a relationship…
Title page of the first London edition (1886)
Stevenson's house Skerryvore in the southern English coastal town of Bournemouth where he wrote Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Richard Mansfield was mostly known for his dual role depicted in this double exposure. The stage adaptation opened in Boston in 1887, a year after the publication of the novella. Picture from 1895.
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