
A forthcoming public talk to be delivered at Pontefract Castle on 8 May 2016.
A forthcoming public talk to be delivered at Pontefract Castle on 8 May 2016.
The lives of murderers, ravishers, thieves, highwaymen, burglars, forgers, Pirates, and Street Robbers adorned the pages of “The Newgate Calendar”.
Johnson’s Lives of the Highwaymen was part of one of the most popular genres of early eighteenth-century literature: the criminal biography.
The penny dreadful author that you’ve never heard of…
This is a copy of the paper I gave at the British Association for Romantic Studies International Conference, 19 – 19 July 2015.