Thieves’ Literature: Three centuries of Penny Bloods, Sensational Literature & Popular Melodrama — an Introduction

♠— by John Adcock —♠




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Thieves’ Literature:

Three centuries of Penny Bloods, Sensational Literature & Popular Melodrama, from the early 1600s to the early 1900s




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The greater the
crime, the larger the woodcut. — ‘Nothing
Like Example’, All the Year Round, 1868




—Table of Contents—




INTRODUCTION



I. LAST DYING SPEECHES, BOG-HOUSE MISCELLANIES, AND BLAZING STARS