Newgate Prison

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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 Hester Biddle
She wrote this in Newgate Prison in London. The nations are England, Scotland, and Ireland.
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.
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Askew, Anne. The Examinations of Anne Askew. Editor Beilin, Elaine V., Oxford University Press.
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Friends, Associates Maria Edgeworth
Among her many social engagements, she attended a house-party at the home of Whig MP and agriculturalist Sir John Sebright , whose guests included Dr Wollaston and the science-writers Jane Marcet and Mary Somerville ...
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/.
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...
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.
Rickman, Lydia L. “Esther Biddle and Her Mission to Louis XIV”. Friends Historical Society Journal, Vol.
47
, pp. 38-45.
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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.
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.
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Field, P. J. C. The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Malory. D. S. Brewer, p. x; 218 pp.
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death Sir Thomas Malory
He was, however, buried at Newgate : at St Francis's Chapel in Greyfriars.

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