Defoe’s criminal minds : a study of female cognitive processing in 18th century criminal fiction by Diyanah Mohamad Yunos

“…Acquainted with the walls of Newgate prison, Defoe was no stranger to the House of Commons and the working system of the Old Bailey, London’s infamous central criminal court. …”
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All's Boman! - the cant lexis in London in 1725 by Hamilton, R

“…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. …”