Fleet Prison

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Wealth and Poverty Annie Tinsley
After losing money on her first publication, Annie Turner was arrested for debt—although she was still in her teens, and could not be held legally responsible for her debts till she reached the age of...
Wealth and Poverty Elizabeth Thomas
ET was arrested in Southwark, and incarcerated in the Fleet Prison for debt; the warrant was dated the previous month.
Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University, 2000.
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Wealth and Poverty Elizabeth Thomas
A warrant was issued for the release of ET from the Fleet Prison , where she had languished for debt for a year and a half.
Rebecca Mills notes that Curll dates the warrant, wrongly, 3 July.
Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University, 2000.
122
Mills, Rebecca. "Thanks for that Elegant Defense": Polemical Prose and Poetry by Women in the Early Eighteenth Century. Oxford University, 2000.
122
Wealth and Poverty Elizabeth Thomas
This was the low point (so far) in Thomas's life. Gwinnett had changed his will less than three weeks before his death, and left her 600 pounds, but his family ensured that it did not...
Wealth and Poverty Leah Sumbel
After the break-up of her second marriage LS lived for about eighteen months at Hammersmith with her sister and brother-in-law, who were back from the West Indies.
Highfill, Philip H. et al. A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. Southern Illinois University Press, 1973–1993.
She says, however, that it was her brother-in-law's...
Wealth and Poverty Jane Squire
Having failed to recover a lost investment through the law courts, JS was arrested for debt and committed to London's Fleet Prison . It seems that she owed £3,400 to people named Bower (or...

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