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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 |
Violence | Christopher Marlowe | Marlowe was arrested and spent twelve days in Newgate Prison
before he was released. |
Textual Production | Katharine Evans | KE
's and Sarah Chevers
's account of their imprisonment in Malta was published in London by their colleague Daniel Baker
while the authors were still in prison, as This is a Short Relation of... |
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... |
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... |
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... |
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 |
Reception | Elizabeth Cellier | EC
was imprisoned in Newgate
to await trial at the Old Bailey
criminal court for her publication (which Jacob Tonson
, reporting this, called a Libell upon the whole Government. At the same time, by... |
Author summary | Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton | Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
, who began his prolific career as Edward Bulwer, wrote many kinds of novels—from the silver-fork genre (whose name derived from a derisive reference to Bulwer himself as a silver fork polisher... |
politics | Elizabeth Cellier | The double agent Willoughby (otherwise Thomas Dangerfield
) had concealed the evidence in order to incriminate her. Interrogated in Newgate PrisonNewgate Prison, EC
proved bold and disrespectful of authority. She was, she said, not the... |
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. 332-3 |
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 |
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... |
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