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The Beauchamp – Sharp Tragedy inspired fictional works such as Edgar Allan Poe's unfinished Politian and Robert Penn Warren's World Enough and Time.
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* In Robert Penn Warren's " World Enough and Time "-historical novel about the Beauchamp – Sharp Tragedy-Maria Jordan refers to her home state ( Virginia ) as the Land of Cockayne.
* Beauchamp – Sharp Tragedy, the murder of Kentucky legislator Solomon P. Sharp by Jereboam O. Beauchamp
Jereboam Beachamp fatally stabbed Colonel Solomon P. Sharp in a murder that became known as the Beauchamp – Sharp Tragedy.
Jereboam Beauchamp, in an effort to defend the honor of his wife, killed Sharp in his own doorway with a knife.
Jereboam Orville Beauchamp (; September 6, 1802 – July 7, 1826 ) was an American lawyer who murdered the Kentucky legislator Solomon P. Sharp ; the crime is known as the Beauchamp – Sharp Tragedy.
Whether Sharp said this has never been determined with certainty ; believing it so, Beauchamp swore to avenge his wife's honor.
In the early morning of November 7, 1825, Beauchamp tricked Sharp into answering the door at his home in Frankfort, and fatally stabbed him.
Solomon P. SharpHe particularly admired Solomon Sharp, a young lawyer in his thirties, with whom Beauchamp hoped to study.
In 1820, Beauchamp became disenchanted with Sharp when rumors surfaced that he had fathered an illegitimate child with a woman named Anna Cooke.
When he proposed marriage that year, Cooke told Beauchamp she would marry him on the condition that he kill Sharp.
Against Cooke's advice, Beauchamp traveled immediately to Frankfort, where Sharp had recently been appointed attorney general by the governor.
Wielding a knife, Beauchamp took out a second knife and offered it to Sharp, who again declined the challenge.
When Beauchamp challenged him a third time, Sharp tried to flee, but Beauchamp caught him by the collar.
The next day, Beauchamp looked for Sharp in the streets of Frankfort, but was told he had left for Bowling Green.
Beauchamp and Tragedy
He wrote a successful novel, Greyslaer ( 1840 ), based on the murder of Colonel Solomon P. Sharp by Jereboam O. Beauchamp, known as the Beauchamp – Sharp Tragedy — an event that several writers, including Thomas Holley Chivers and William Gilmore Simms, also fictionalized.
His murder at the hands of Jereboam O. Beauchamp in 1825 is referred to as the Beauchamp – Sharp Tragedy or The Kentucky Tragedy.
Poe had previously fictionalized the so-called Beauchamp – Sharp Tragedy in his only play, Politian, which was left uncompleted in 1835.
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