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DRUNKS, WHORES AND IDLE APPRENTICES
DRUNKS, WHORES AND IDLE APPRENTICES
Criminal biographies of the eighteenth century
Philip Rawlings
PREFACE
ABBREVIATIONS
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
THE BIOGRAPHICAL LITERATURE OF CRIME AND ITS POPULARITY
READERS
WRITERS AND THE PROBLEMS OF AUTHENTICITY AND ACCURACY
THE CRIMINAL BIOGRAPHY AS LITERATURE
THE CRIMINAL BIOGRAPHY AS HISTORY
ISSUES AND TENSIONS IN CRIMINAL BIOGRAPHIES
Individualism
Apprentices and ‘the Great Law of Subordination’
Gender
London
CHANGES IN THE LITERATURE
FURTHER READING
NOTES
I THE HISTORY OF… JOHN SHEPPARD (1724)
1 INTRODUCTION
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
NOTES
2 THE HISTORY Of the remarkable LIFE of JOHN SHEPPARD, containing A particular Account of his many ROBBERIES and ESCAPES, Viz.
TO THE CITIZENS OF London and Westminster.
THE LIFE OF JOHN SHEPPARD, &c.
NOTES
II THE LIFE AND ACTIONS OF JAMES DALTON (1730)
3 INTRODUCTION
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
NOTES
4 THE LIFE AND ACTIONS OF JAMES DALTON, (The noted Street-Robber.)
THE LIFE AND ACTIONS OF JAMES DALTON.
NOTES
III THE ORDINARY OF NEWGATE’S ACCOUNT: MARY YOUNG (1741)
5 INTRODUCTION
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
NOTES
6 THE ORDINARY of NEWGATE, His ACCOUNT of the Behaviour, Confession, and Dying Words, OF THE MALEFACTORS, Who were Executed at TYBURN, On WEDNESDAY the 18th of March, 1740. 1
BEING THE First EXECUTION in the MAYORALTY OF THE Rt. Hon. HUMPHREY PARSONS, Esq; LONDON: Printed and Sold by JOHN APPLEBEE, in Bolt-Court, near the Leg-Tavern, Fleet-street. M, DCC,XL. (Price SIX-PENCE.)
NOTES
IV THE DISCOVERIES OF JOHN POULTER (1753–4)
7 INTRODUCTION
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
NOTES
8 THE DISCOVERIES OF John Poulter, alias Baxter;
The DISCOVERIES of John Poulter alias Baxter.
NOTES
V THE LIFE, TRAVELS, EXPLOITS, FRAUDS AND ROBBERIES OF CHARLES SPECKMAN (1763)
9 INTRODUCTION
NOTES
10 THE Life, Travels, Exploits, Frauds and Robberies, OF Charles Speckman, alias Brown,
THE LIFE AND WONDERFUL TRANSACTIONS OF Mr. CHARLES SPECKMAN, alias BROWNE, &c.1
NOTES
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