Newgate Prison

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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.
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She was badgered for information about several ladies suspected...
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.
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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.
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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.
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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...

Timeline

22 May 1685: Titus Oates, the informer in the alleged...

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22 May 1685

Titus Oates , the informer in the alleged Popish Plot, was whipped through the London streets at a cart's tail from Newgate Prison , where he was incarcerated, to Tyburn.

17 June 1721: Newspapers reported the royal plan for an...

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17 June 1721

Newspapers reported the royal plan for an experiment as to the safety of inoculation against smallpox, to be conducted on inmates of Newgate Prison in London.

9 August 1721: Charles Maitland, under the patronage of...

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9 August 1721

Charles Maitland , under the patronage of Princess Caroline , experimentally inoculated six Newgate prisoners (three of each sex) against smallpox.

27 January 1722: Daniel Defoe anonymously published The Fortunes...

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27 January 1722

Daniel Defoe anonymously published The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders, his first fictional autobiography of a criminal woman.

8 November 1728: The mercury Anne Dodd was sentenced to Newgate...

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8 November 1728

The mercuryAnne Dodd was sentenced to Newgate Prison for publishing a libel; she had petitioned against the sentence, as a working woman not as a figure of pathos.

7 November 1783: The last public hanging took place at Tyburn...

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7 November 1783

The last public hanging took place at Tyburn in London (near where Marble Arch now stands), putting an end to the practice of parading the condemned through town en route to the scene of execution.

1813: Elizabeth Gurney Fry first visited Newgate...

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1813

Elizabeth Gurney Fry first visited Newgate Prison in London; horrified at conditions there, she began providing food and education for female and child prisoners, and agitated for prison reform.

30 November 1824: A banker, Henry Fauntleroy, was hanged for...

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30 November 1824

A banker, Henry Fauntleroy , was hanged for forgery at Newgate Prison in London, before a crowd of 100,000. The bank he had worked for was that of Anne Marsh 's husband's family.

3 May 1834: William Harrison Ainsworth published his...

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3 May 1834

William Harrison Ainsworth published his hugely successful first novel, Rookwood.

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