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… Thomas Miller’s “The Mysteries of London; or, Lights and Shadows of London Life” (1849) 14 Dec 201616 Dec 2016 Thomas Miller’s The Mysteries of London; or, The Lights and Shadows of London Life (1849) is a continuation of G. W. M. Reynolds’ eponymous penny blood serialised novel published between…
19th Century… Society Gets the Criminals it Deserves: The Resurrection Man from G. W. M. Reynolds’ “The Mysteries of London” (1844-45) 30 Nov 201630 Nov 2016 [All images unless otherwise stated are my own, scanned from a first edition of Reynolds’ Mysteries that is in my own collection – permission to use is freely granted providing…
18th century… The First Robin Hood Novel: Robert Southey’s “Harold, or the Castle of Morford” (1791) 18 Nov 2016 The first Robin Hood novel to be published was the anonymous Robin Hood: A Tale of the Olden Time (1819). A few months after this Walter Scott published his enormously…
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… The Chartist Robin Hood: Thomas Miller’s “Royston Gower, or, The Days of King John” (1838) 4 Aug 20164 Aug 2016 The early nineteenth century witnessed two phenomenally successful Robin Hood novels: Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe (1819) and Thomas Love Peacock’s Maid Marian (1822). After those two novels, authors took a break…
