Newgate Prison

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...

AA is said to have composed and sung the ballad which is her best-known work, in Newgate Prison the night before her execution.

She was interrogated by Bonner and tortured by the Lord Chancellor, Thomas Wriothesley, later Earl of Southampton , and Richard Rich with their owne handes. She was badgered for information about several ladies suspected...

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.

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...

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...

HB 's son Daniel , one of the four children of her marriage, was born.

HB was imprisoned in Newgate Prison for speaking publicly in the street.

She wrote this in Newgate Prison in London. The nations are England, Scotland, and Ireland.

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...