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VIOLENT VICTORIANS

Violent Victorians

Popular entertainment
in nineteenth-century London

Rosalind Crone

Copyright Rosalind Crone 2012

The right of Rosalind Crone to be identified as the author of this work has been
asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Published by Manchester University Press
Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9NR, UK
and Room 400, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA
www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk

Distributed in the United States exclusively by
Palgrave Macmillan, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York,
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Distributed in Canada exclusively by
UBC Press, University of British Columbia, 2029 West Mall,
Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z2

British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data applied for

ISBN 978 0 7190 8684 7 hardback
ISBN 978 0 7190 8685 4 paperback

First published 2012

The publisher has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for
any external or third-party internet websites referred to in this book, and does not
guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate.

Typeset in Minion and Harrington
by Carnegie Book Production, Lancaster
Printed in Great Britain
by Bell & Bain Ltd, Glasgow

For my mother, Sheelagh Crone

Contents

List of figures, tables and diagrams

Figures

. Lee and Harpers theatrical booth at Bartholomew Fair (c. 1721). From William Hone, The Every-Day Book (London, 1826), volume 1, pp. 12234 (Y.23.40). Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library

. Punchs Puppet Shew (c. 1795), John Johnson Collection, Miniature Theatre 5 (42). By permission of the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

. Robert Cruikshank, Doings of Punch and Judy, in George Smeeton, Doings in London (London, 1828), p. 385 (8000.c.92). Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library

. George Cruikshanks illustrations for John Payne Colliers Punch and Judy (London, 1828). Authors personal collection

(Lib.5.82.7). Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library.

(T992.b.1). Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library

(T992.b.1). Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library

(T992.b.1). Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library

(T992.b.1). Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library

. Sketch of the Red Barn printed in the Essex Herald (12 August 1828). Reproduced by kind permission of St Edmundsbury Borough Council Heritage Service

. Creamware mug with the portrait of murderer John Thurtell, c. 1824. Reproduced by kind permission of The Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton & Hove

. Earthenware figurines: William Corder and Maria Marten, c. 1828, and Pearlware model of the Red Barn at Polstead c. 1830. Reproduced by kind permission of The Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton & Hove

. Earthenware portrait figurines: James Blomfield Rush, c. 1849, and Emily Sandford, c. 1848; Earthenware model of Potash Farm, c. 1848. Reproduced by kind permission of The Royal Pavilion and Museums, Brighton & Hove

Savage and Inhuman Murder of Ann Tape, in George Street St Giless (London, 1845), John Johnson Collection, Broadsides: Murder and Executions Folder 5 (3). By permission of the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

The Full Account and Latest Particulars of the Awful, Inhuman and Barbarous Murder of a Female (London, 1842). John Johnson Collection, Broadsides: Murder and Executions Folder 5 (39). By permission of the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

. The Edgeware Road Tragedy. Life, Trial and Execution of James Greenacre (London, 1838), John Johnson Collection, Broadsides: Murder and Executions Folder 6 (8). By permission of the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

(Lib.6.86.37). Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library

. Playbill for the Britannia Theatre, 22 September 1856, London Playbills.376. British Library Board, All Rights Reserved

. Playbill for the Grecian Theatre, 6 October 1862, Harvard Theatre Collection Houghton Library, Harvard

. Playbill from Britannia Saloon advertising the production of The String of Pearls, 1 March 1847, London Playbills.376. British Library Board, All Rights Reserved

, Barry Ono Collection British Library Board, All Rights Reserved

. Reynoldss Miscellany, 1 (26 December 1846), 113 (Q900.a.7). Reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library

, Barry Ono Collection British Library Board, All Rights Reserved

. M. J. Rymer, Varney the Vampyre (London, 184647), p. 833, Barry Ono Collection British Library Board, All Rights Reserved

. T. P. Prest, The String of Pearls (London, 1850), p. 609, Barry Ono Collection British Library Board, All Rights Reserved

, Barry Ono Collection British Library Board, All Rights Reserved

. M. J. Rymer, Ada the Betrayed; or, the Murder at the Old Smithy (London, 1843), p. 345, Barry Ono Collection British Library Board, All Rights Reserved

. The Dance of Death, or The Hangmans Plot (London, 1866), wrapper, Barry Ono Collection British Library Board, All Rights Reserved

, Barry Ono Collection British Library Board, All Rights Reserved

. Examination of Good, for the Barbarous Murder of Jane Jones (London, 1842), John Johnson Collection, Broadsides: Murder and Execution Folder 5 (40). By permission of the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

. Trial of Good for the Murder of Jane Jones at Putney (London, 1842), John Johnson Collection, Broadsides: Murder and Execution Folder 5 (41). By permission of the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

. Penny Sunday Times and Peoples Police Gazette (London, 1842), John Johnson Collection, Broadsides: Murder and Execution Folder 5 (42a&b). By permission of the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford

. Penny Sunday Times and Peoples Police Gazette (1 November 1840) British Library Board, All Rights Reserved

Penny Sunday Times and Peoples Police Gazette (9 May 1841) British Library Board, All Rights Reserved

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