All's Boman! - the cant lexis in London in 1725
When Jack Sheppard embarked on his final journey from Newgate prison to be hanged at Tyburn in 1724, he became the focus of a highly disparate but closely related set of texts, some of which were written about him, while others emerged from the milieu in which he had cut a prominent figure. As a res...
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2010
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