Newgate Prison

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politics Thomas Holcroft
TH was indicted for high treason under government legislation against sedition. He refused to flee abroad, but gave himself up and was confined in Newgate Prison .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson.
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Reception Elinor James
EJ was committed to Newgate Prison , and fined 13s.4d., for dispersing scandalous and reflecting papers.
McDowell, Paula. The Women of Grub Street: Press, Politics, and Gender in the London Literary Marketplace, 1678-1730. Clarendon.
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Textual Production Fanny Kemble
In the third volume of this memoir, she recalls a visit to Newgate in 1831 with Elizabeth Fry , remarking about the prisoners, I felt broken-hearted for them, . . . and ashamed for us...
Textual Features Edna Lyall
Mondisfield Hall, depicted here as it was during the Restoration, is based on Badmondisfield (or Badmondesfield) Hall, an Elizabethan moated manor at Wickhambrook in Suffolk, where as a girl EL used to stay with...
Residence Sir Thomas Malory
Although many sources say that STM was incarcerated at Newgate Prison while writing Le Morte d'Arthur, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online judges it more probable that he was held at the Tower...
death Sir Thomas Malory
He was, however, buried at Newgate : at St Francis's Chapel in Greyfriars.
death Sir Thomas Malory
STM , narrator of Arthurian legends, died in London. Contrary to most accounts before recent times, it is not certain that he died at Newgate Prison .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Reiss, Edmund. Sir Thomas Malory. Twayne.
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Field, P. J. C. The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Malory. D. S. Brewer, p. x; 218 pp.
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Violence Christopher Marlowe
Marlowe was arrested and spent twelve days in Newgate Prison before he was released.
Textual Features Elizabeth Shirley
As a member of her community Shirley wrote for the good of that community. Though she professed to judge herself unworthy, she thought it her duty & part to write, hoping to inspire all those...
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Whitehead
He paid heavily for his Quaker beliefs. He was arrested and imprisoned in London'sNewgate prison, where he died on 5 February 1665.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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