Rickman, Lydia L. “Esther Biddle and Her Mission to Louis XIV”. Friends Historical Society Journal, Vol.
47
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Newgate Prison
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Other Life Event | Mary Carleton | MC
was committed to Newgate
on a charge of bigamy, having further antagonised the presiding magistrate, Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey
, by answering back and cracking jokes. Extra charges of theft and of being a... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Hester Biddle | HB
's son Daniel
, one of the four children of her marriage, was born. Historian Lydia L. Rickman
speculates that Daniel may have been born while HB
was in Newgate Prison. |
| politics | Hester Biddle | HB
was imprisoned in Newgate Prison for speaking publicly in the street. Hobby, Elaine. Virtue of Necessity: English Women’s Writing 1646-1688. Virago. 46 |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Hester Biddle | |
| death | Maria Barrell | MB
, having having had her death sentence commuted to transportation to New South Wales, died in Newgate Prison
, London, while waiting for the sentence to be carried out. Ashfield, Andrew. Emails to Isobel Grundy about Maria Barrell. |
| Other Life Event | Maria Barrell | She claimed she had done some business for a widow: enabling her to receive prize-money of some unidentified description which the widow was unable to get hold of without help. This widow, she said, had... |
| Other Life Event | Maria Barrell | This was also the term now used in court for the crime for which she had served her sentence in Newgate
two years before. Counterfeiting was a capital offence: she was found guilty and condemned... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Anne Askew | AA
is said to have composed and sung the ballad which is her best-known work, in Newgate Prison
the night before her execution. Beilin, Elaine V., and Anne Askew. “Introduction”. The Examinations of Anne Askew, Oxford University Press. xxxii Askew, Anne. The Examinations of Anne Askew. Editor Beilin, Elaine V., Oxford University Press. 149 |
| Violence | Anne Askew | She was interrogated by Bonner and tortured by the Lord Chancellor, Thomas Wriothesley, later Earl of Southampton
, and Richard Rich
with their owne handes. Askew, Anne. The Examinations of Anne Askew. Editor Beilin, Elaine V., Oxford University Press. 127 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Sarah Flower Adams | Sarah' s father, Benjamin Flower
, was a political writer, a religious dissenter, and the editor and publisher of the Cambridge Intelligencer, which first published six of Coleridge
's early poems. In 1799 he... |
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