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Tag: Jack Sheppard

Author Who Outsold Dickens…

Stephen Carver’s “Author Who Outsold Dickens” (2020): Biography of a Crime Novelist

23 Mar 202023 Mar 2020
By Stephen Basdeo When I was doing my MA dissertation on the cultural history of crime, my supervisor, Dr Heather Shore, advised me to read two now largely forgotten novels:…
19th Century…

Pernicious Trash? “The Prince of Archers, or, The Boyhood Days of Robin Hood”(1883)

16 Oct 2016
There is now before us such a veritable mountain of pernicious trash, mostly in paper covers, and “Price One Penny”; so-called novelettes, tales, stories of adventure, mystery and crime; pictures…
19th Century…

Judging Robin Hood: Negotiating Outlawry in Nineteenth-Century Texts

25 Jun 2016
Paper Read at Plymouth University Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference 23-24 June 2016. Abstract. Robin Hood needs no introduction. He is the noble outlaw who steals from the rich to give to…
18th century…

Edgworth Bess, a Prostitute (fl. 1723-24)

12 Mar 201616 Mar 2016
This is a blog post written for my friend, Dr. Kate Lister, and her 'Whores of Yore' project. All illustrations featured in the article are from original nineteenth-century books in…
18th century…

The Victorian Underworld

24 Feb 2016
This is the text of a public talk given at Abbey House Museum, Kirkstall, Leeds on 1 March 2015 to complement their Crime and Punishment Exhibition. Introduction The history of…
18th century…

Jack Sheppard (1702-1724)

16 Nov 20153 May 2018
Jack Sheppard (1702-1724) is one of my favourite thieves, second only, in my opinion, to Robin Hood. He was rather like an eighteenth-century Artful Dodger, a proper cheeky chappie who…

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