Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Newgate Prison
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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. |
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... |
Violence | Christopher Marlowe | Marlowe was arrested and spent twelve days in Newgate Prison
before he was released. |
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. 11 Field, P. J. C. The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Malory. D. S. Brewer, p. x; 218 pp. 132 |
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... |
death | Sir Thomas Malory | He was, however, buried at Newgate
: at St Francis's Chapel in Greyfriars. |
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 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... |
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 |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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
... |
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... |
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... |
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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