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Con Men and Cutpurses Scenes from the Hogarthian Underworld

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ISBN-10: 0140437606

ISBN-13: 9780140437607

Edition: 2004

Authors: Lucy Moore, Lucy Moore

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Based upon extracts from popular journalism and biographical accounts, Lucy Moore's selection of writings presents the 18th-century criminal underworld in the idiomatic language of the time.
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Book details

List price: $17.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 12/28/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.04" wide x 7.76" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Introduction
A Note on the Texts
Further Reading
The Hogarthian Underworld
Ned Ward
Bernard de Mandeville
Cesar de Saussure
Henry Fielding
Prefaces to Malefactor's Register and Knapp and Baldwin's Newgate Calendar
Murderers
Dr Theodore Fabricius
Sarah Malcolm
William Duell
Earl Ferrers
Elizabeth Brownrigg
Hannah Webley
Prostitutes
Sarah Pridden
Prisoners at Bridewell
Corinna
An anonymous male prostitute
Harriette Wilson
Thieves
Jack Sheppard
Mary Young (Jenny Diver)
Ann Flynn
William Cox
George Barrington
Sarah Stanley
Pirates
William Kidd
Edward Teach (Blackbeard)
Anne Bonny and Mary Read
John Lancey
Edward Trelawny
Sex Offenders
Charles Hitchin
William Robins
George Duffus
Arthur Gray
Margaret Clap
Francis Charteris
John Deacon and Thomas Blair
Highwaymen
James Hind
Claude Du Vall
Benjamin Child
Richard Turpin
James Macleane
John Rann
Confidence Tricksters
Mary Carleton
Mary Toft
Dr William Dodd
John Dyer
John Hatfield
A Miscellany
The Hawkins Gang
Jonathan Wild
John Holmes and Peter Williams
Renwick Williams
Cant Glossary
The Black Act
Acknowledgements