Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Newgate Prison
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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
. Goodwin, Albert. The Friends of Liberty: The English Democratic Movement in the Age of the French Revolution. Hutchinson. 332-3 |
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. 121 |
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. 11 Field, P. J. C. The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Malory. D. S. Brewer, p. x; 218 pp. 132 |
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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