“G. W. M. Reynolds we devoured in The Coral Island, a big tome of horrors; and there was Eugéne Sue’s Mysteries of Paris in three big volumes.”
Remembering a Poor Irishman and his Penny Dreadfuls (1893) | Katharine Tynan
Sedition | Stephen Basdeo
“The distance is never great between contempt of the laws and open resistance to them.” – Justice Fitzgerald.
‘The Prince of Pick-Pockets’: George Barrington (1755-1804)
Expelled from school after stabbing his classmate, G. Barrington became an actor, then a pickpocket, until he was transported to Botany Bay and died of insanity.