Skip to content

Here Begynneth A Lytell Geste of Robin Hood…

Chronicling the Lives of Robbers, Rogues & Rebels

Search
  • About
    • Adam Ramos
    • Angelo Calfo
    • Anthony Bynoe
    • Boone Alway
    • Carlos Rodriguez
    • Christian Albright
    • Derrick Mafarra
    • Logan Lafferty
    • Mark Truesdale
    • Rebecca Nesvet
    • Robert Ramirez
    • Stephen Basdeo
      • “My Education in Guyana” by Doctor Joseph Basdeo
    • Tyler Welch
  • Book Reviews
    • “London Lives: Poverty, Crime, and the Making of a Modern City” (2015)
    • “Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America: The Interface between Print and Oral Traditions” (2014)
    • “Robin Hood in Outlawed Spaces” by Valerie Johnson and Lesley Coote
  • Concepts of Crime
    • Organized Crime
    • Social Crime
  • Lectures
    • The History of Novels
    • The History of the End of the World: The Apocalypse in Popular Culture
    • The Public Sphere: An Introduction
  • Media Gallery
    • Joseph Ritson (1752-1803)
    • Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Feathertop” (1st British Edition)

Category: novels

Battle of Vannes…

“Mysteries of the People” (1848): Eugene Sue’s Epic Socialist Novel

13 Apr 2021
By Stephen Basdeo In 1848 the master of the “mysteries” novels, Eugene Sue, began the weekly serialisation of a new novel: Mysteries of the People. It was a chronicle of…
19th Century…

How Victorians Fell in Love with American Rebels

17 Apr 202017 Apr 2020
By Stephen Basdeo The much vaunted ‘special relationship’ between the USA and the UK is a fairly recent invention. For much of the Victorian period, relations between the two nations…
20th Century…

“They had never heard of Robin Hood”: Remarks from George Orwell’s “A Clergyman’s Daughter” (1935)

3 Mar 2020
By Stephen Basdeo Robin Hood has on occasion been accused of being a hero who appears mainly in literature for the middle classes. The first ever printed copies of A…
18th century…

The First Robin Hood Novel: Robert Southey’s “Harold, or, The Castle of Morford” (1791)

13 Jun 2017
(This is an updated version of an earlier post I made) Scholars generally point to 1819 as the year that the first Robin Hood novels appeared, these being the anonymous…
19th Century…

When “Upperworld” and “Underworld” Meet: Social Class and Crime in “The Mysteries of London (1844-46)

15 Mar 2017
[The following is the text of a talk given at Lancaster University's 'Class and the Past Conference' on 16 March 2017]. Introduction George William MacArthur Reynolds’ The Mysteries of London,…
18th century…

Rob Roy (1671-1734)

13 Jan 2017
A famous man is Robin Hood, The English ballad-singer's joy! And Scotland has a thief as good, An outlaw of as daring mood; She has her brave ROB ROY! Then…

Posts navigation

Older posts

Tags

17th Century 18th century 19th Century crime Crime History crime literature criminal biography English Literature Highwaymen History literature Medievalism Outlaws Robin Hood victorian
Follow Here Begynneth A Lytell Geste of Robin Hood… on WordPress.com

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 4,041 other followers

Follow me on Twitter

My Tweets
Website Built with WordPress.com.
Cancel

 
Loading Comments...
Comment
    ×