Hi there, I have just begun looking into some of the 19th century penny dreadfuls for my masters thesis. I have no previous knowledge of the areas and would...
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Michael Holmes
varney@...
May 4, 2001 11:52 am
Hello to all and welcome to our new member, Steve. Like Justin, I don't think I have any firefighting stuff, but I do have a pile of miscellaneous storypapers...
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Jess Nevins
jjnevins@...
May 4, 2001 12:25 pm
The hell with the fakes, the Cannibal Courtesan needs to be written now. jess...
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Justin Gilbert
justingilb@...
May 4, 2001 12:38 pm
Hello Julie, Unfortunately very few penny dreadfuls have been reprinted recently. Wagner the Wehr-Wolf by G. W. M. Reynolds, and Varney the Vampyre, probably...
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William Powers
sfsd40@...
May 4, 2001 1:07 pm
Just a bit of trivia for you all. Since I've seen so much interest in Spring-Heeled Jack in this forum, I just thought that I'd mention that when reading The...
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Trefor Thomas
trefor.thomas@...
May 4, 2001 4:52 pm
... From: "Watkins, J.L." <jlw18@...> To: <BloodsandDimeNovels@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, May 04, 2001 12:35 PM Subject: [BloodsandDimeNovels]...
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danielma@...
May 5, 2001 4:00 am
How about a little more Spring-Heeled Jack, Thanks for the bit of trivia. I had planned earlier today to query the big Victoria Listserv about references to...
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Trefor Thomas
trefor.thomas@...
May 6, 2001 2:20 pm
This is a minor query, but it puzzles me: The Jack Harkaway stories by Bracebridge Hemying are usually called Penny Dreadfuls. However, I have copies of a...
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Trefor Thomas
trefor.thomas@...
May 6, 2001 2:42 pm
I intended to write Halfpenny Dreadfuls in the last line of my query. Trefor...
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Michael Holmes
varney@...
May 7, 2001 9:54 pm
Steve I had a look through my stuff but no firefighting items. However, I see some stuff on ebay which you might be interested in. Here's the address: ...
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a.maisey@...
May 8, 2001 12:02 pm
Hi there, my name is Alex Maisey, I'm a trainee librarian at University College London, - and along with Kiera Chapman, a Phd student researching the early...
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jjnevins@...
May 8, 2001 5:18 pm
... Aha! Another librarian on the list. :-) ... Nice work! I of course want to see more, but you've made a good beginning. What I particularly would like to...
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Justin Gilbert
justingilb@...
May 8, 2001 5:32 pm
Hello Alex, I think you lost a colon somewhere and the correct url should be http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uclekch/ I love your site so far, I hope you keep adding to...
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danielma@...
May 8, 2001 7:10 pm
Hi Everyone, Regarding the question about "The String of Pearls" version mounted on Alex's website, I must say the text is not actually from a penny dreadful....
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Trefor Thomas
trefor.thomas@...
May 9, 2001 8:03 am
... From: <a.maisey@...> To: <BloodsandDimeNovels@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 12:28 PM Subject: [BloodsandDimeNovels] Victorian Popular...
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Justin Gilbert
justingilb@...
May 9, 2001 9:08 am
Hello Trefor et al., I have a copy of Vileroy, or The Horrors of Zindorf Castle, but I don't really have time to transcribe it right now. I still owe Jess some...
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Jess Nevins
jjnevins@...
May 9, 2001 12:09 pm
... Justin, *really*, there's no rush on it. If you want to do the Vileroy or something else, please do it. jess...
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Alex Maisey
a.maisey@...
May 9, 2001 6:01 pm
Hi everyone, I just wanted to thank everyone for the responses I've had so far about my website. Its actually really encouraging to know that there are some...
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Michael Holmes
varney@...
May 9, 2001 10:37 pm
A warm welcome to Kiera and Alex. What an excellent, excellent site you have put together. It's a sensational serial fiction dream come true! In a way it's...
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Michael Holmes
varney@...
May 9, 2001 10:45 pm
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danielma@...
May 10, 2001 4:14 am
Hi Everyone, This is in response to Michael's question about microfilms at the BL. I have purchased the PEOPLE'S PERIODICAL version of Todd, the 1848-50 (I...
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Michael Holmes
varney@...
May 19, 2001 2:35 pm
Hello to everyone again, As things are quiet I take the opportunity to send in details of another fake Lloyd serial. The great tradegy about these bogus...
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k13r@...
May 20, 2001 9:42 pm
Hello everyone Sorry I haven't been in contact for ages - I have been busy with work and studies. I have found a few more biographical details about Edward...
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Justin Gilbert
justingilb@...
May 20, 2001 11:19 pm
<P> <BR>Hello Peter, <P>I can't help you with the Newnes BB Library. <P>There is an index for the last 12 years or so of Dime Novel Round-Up at <A ...
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William Powers
sfsd40@...
May 21, 2001 1:29 pm
I was just up in Connecticut and I found a store with some dime novels in case any of you are interested: namely, Early Western Series 1,2,12, 14, all in good...
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k13r@...
May 21, 2001 10:09 pm
Dear all Sorry about the `typos' in my last message - it was late at night! Anyway, as promised, a few more biographical details about Edward Viles I now have...
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Michael Holmes
varney@...
May 23, 2001 2:57 pm
Hello all Well done to Peter on the Viles information. What I would really like to know is did he really write BLACK BESS, BLACK HIGHWAYMAN, BLUESKIN, or was ...
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billblackbeard@...
Jun 4, 2001 11:58 pm
i'm Bill Blackbeard, collector and writer (Sherlock Holmes in America,The Comic Strip Century, etc.). Have been greatly intetested in British popular fiction...
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Michael Holmes
varney@...
Jun 5, 2001 8:59 am
Welcome from me, Bill. It's great to find another collector of the old bloods and dreadfuls. As I'm sure you know they are are thin on the ground ( or anywhere...
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Kay
the_vampire_akisha@...
Jun 5, 2001 6:10 pm
Just thought I would say hello. I'm not a collector or a particularly knowledgeable expert on bloods (I only know what I've read online or in a few old books)...
