Author: Kellow Chesney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140139709
Category : Criminals
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Beneath the respectable surface of Victorian England lay a criminal world as diverse, turbulent and vicious as any. This begins by looking at that age and its penal methods and it then recreates the showmen, religious fakes, garrotters, pickpockets, prostitutes and magsmen who thronged the murky rookeries and lays of the cities.
The Victorian Underworld
Author: Kellow Chesney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140139709
Category : Criminals
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Beneath the respectable surface of Victorian England lay a criminal world as diverse, turbulent and vicious as any. This begins by looking at that age and its penal methods and it then recreates the showmen, religious fakes, garrotters, pickpockets, prostitutes and magsmen who thronged the murky rookeries and lays of the cities.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140139709
Category : Criminals
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Beneath the respectable surface of Victorian England lay a criminal world as diverse, turbulent and vicious as any. This begins by looking at that age and its penal methods and it then recreates the showmen, religious fakes, garrotters, pickpockets, prostitutes and magsmen who thronged the murky rookeries and lays of the cities.
The Victorian Underworld
Author: Donald Thomas
Publisher: John Murray
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Through the eyes of its inhabitants, this work portrays the 19th-century underworld, a place of night houses and cigar divans, of street people like the running-patterer with his news of murder, and entertainers like the Fire-King. It looks at the criminals, growth of prostitution and prisons.
Publisher: John Murray
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Through the eyes of its inhabitants, this work portrays the 19th-century underworld, a place of night houses and cigar divans, of street people like the running-patterer with his news of murder, and entertainers like the Fire-King. It looks at the criminals, growth of prostitution and prisons.
The Fortunes of Grace Hammer
Author: Sara Stockbridge
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446420841
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Grace Hammer lives a sweet enough life with her four children in London's dank and dirty East End, dipping into the pockets of wealthy strangers foolish enough to venture there. She keeps a clean house and a tight hold on her magpie nature, restricting her interests to wallets and pocket watches - at night she dreams of shiny things. Unbeknown to Grace, her most audacious crime will soon return to haunt her and old enemies come knocking. Out in the dark countryside Mr Blunt rocks in his chair, grinding his teeth, vowing furious retribution. He has never forgotten his scarlet treasure, or the harlot that stole it from him. At night he dreams of slitting her lily-white throat...
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446420841
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Grace Hammer lives a sweet enough life with her four children in London's dank and dirty East End, dipping into the pockets of wealthy strangers foolish enough to venture there. She keeps a clean house and a tight hold on her magpie nature, restricting her interests to wallets and pocket watches - at night she dreams of shiny things. Unbeknown to Grace, her most audacious crime will soon return to haunt her and old enemies come knocking. Out in the dark countryside Mr Blunt rocks in his chair, grinding his teeth, vowing furious retribution. He has never forgotten his scarlet treasure, or the harlot that stole it from him. At night he dreams of slitting her lily-white throat...
Underworld London
Author: Catharine Arnold
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Limited
ISBN: 9781849832922
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
True Crime.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Limited
ISBN: 9781849832922
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
True Crime.
Pickpockets, Beggars and Ratcatchers
Author: Kellow Chesney
Publisher: Konecky & Konecky
ISBN: 9781568525754
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher: Konecky & Konecky
ISBN: 9781568525754
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Anti-society
Author: Kellow Chesney
Publisher: Boston : Gambit
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Publisher: Boston : Gambit
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Victorian Underworld
Author: Donald Thomas
Publisher: Murder Room
ISBN: 1471916626
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
'Donald Thomas introduces us to the slums and fetid courtyards of nineteenth-century London and in doing so provides a sweeping portrait of the vast world that did not accept "Victorian Values". The villainy is outstanding. It is also entertaining. The author has a practised eye for the best anecdotes and presents amazing characters, some of whom come equipped with names that sound positively Dickensian . . . a wonderful profile of Victorian London' The Spectator
Publisher: Murder Room
ISBN: 1471916626
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
'Donald Thomas introduces us to the slums and fetid courtyards of nineteenth-century London and in doing so provides a sweeping portrait of the vast world that did not accept "Victorian Values". The villainy is outstanding. It is also entertaining. The author has a practised eye for the best anecdotes and presents amazing characters, some of whom come equipped with names that sound positively Dickensian . . . a wonderful profile of Victorian London' The Spectator
The victorian underworld
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Victorian underworld
Author: Kellow Chesney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The Victorian Underworld
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description