Fleet Prison

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Wealth and Poverty Elizabeth Thomas
A warrant was issued for the release of ET from the Fleet Prison , where she had languished for debt for a year and a half.
Rebecca Mills notes that Curll dates the warrant, wrongly, 3 July.
Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University.
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Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University.
122
Wealth and Poverty Elizabeth Thomas
This was the low point (so far) in Thomas's life. Gwinnett had changed his will less than three weeks before his death, and left her 600 pounds, but his family ensured that it did not...
Wealth and Poverty Annie Tinsley
After losing money on her first publication, Annie Turner was arrested for debt—although she was still in her teens, and could not be held legally responsible for her debts till she reached the age of...
Wealth and Poverty Eliza Fenwick
EF 's husband , many times threatened with arrest for debt, went bankrupt and was confined in the Fleet Prison .
Grundy, Isobel, and Eliza Fenwick. “Introduction and Appendices”. Secresy, 2ndnd ed, Broadview, pp. 7 - 34, 361.
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Wealth and Poverty Elizabeth Sarah Gooch
Despite her efforts on the provincial stage, she was re-arrested for debt and sent first to the Marshalsea and then to the Fleet Prison in London.
Major, Joanne, and Sarah Murden. “Elizabeth Sarah Villa-Real—Mrs Gooch”. All Things Georgian.
Gooch, Elizabeth Sarah. An Appeal to the Public. G. Kearsley.
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This was precipitated in part by her...
Wealth and Poverty Mary Robinson
MR 's husband was arrested for debt (some of which predated his marriage); she accompanied him to the Fleet Prison , and did not leave it for almost ten months.
Robinson, Mary. “Introduction”. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson, edited by Moses Joseph Levy, Peter Owen.
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Robinson, Mary. Perdita: The Memoirs of Mary Robinson. Editor Levy, Moses Joseph, Peter Owen.
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Wealth and Poverty Jane Squire
Having failed to recover a lost investment through the law courts, JS was arrested for debt and committed to London's Fleet Prison . It seems that she owed £3,400 to people named Bower (or...
Wealth and Poverty Jane Squire
JS was released from the Fleet Prison following the passage through parliament of an Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Wealth and Poverty Leah Sumbel
After the break-up of her second marriage LS lived for about eighteen months at Hammersmith with her sister and brother-in-law, who were back from the West Indies.
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press.
She says, however, that it was her brother-in-law's...
Wealth and Poverty Elizabeth Thomas
ET was arrested in Southwark, and incarcerated in the Fleet Prison for debt; the warrant was dated the previous month.
Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University.
122
Textual Production Elizabeth Thomas
Despite the thirty-pound offer, when ET copied out her poems for this publication (as she explained to Lord Oxford years later), she was counting only on two guineas from Curll for the copyright, which is...
Textual Production Harriette Wilson
Stockdale the publisher, newly released from the Fleet and operating from a new address in St James's Square, issued a scandal series, Stockdale's Budget, which some attributed to HW .
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber.
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Reception Harriette Wilson
The Memoirs immediately produced extraordinary sensations in fashionable life,
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber.
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with anguished responses from ex-lovers and moralists, as well as from people in the book trade and people in HW 's own sex trade. Crowds...
politics Rose Hickman
The Marian government sometimes confiscated goods from Anthony Hickman 's ships. After it made attendance at Roman Catholic Mass compulsory in 1554, he began smuggling Protestant preachers abroad. Then he and his business partner Thomas Locke
Other Life Event Lady Eleanor Douglas
LED spent her last period of imprisonment—this time in the Fleet —writing as usual.
Douglas, Lady Eleanor. Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies. Editor Cope, Esther S., Oxford University Press.
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