I haven't had a look at this for some time, so I'm just catching up on some recent posting related to Sweeney Todd. I thought some readers might be interested...
Yes, indeed. Originally, another project was in the works that would have brought Sondheim's version to the screen via ... wait for it ... Stephen Speilberg as...
The odd thing is there is a spurious bio of Sweeney Todd going the rounds similar to the Haining piece claiming it came from the Daily Courant. This piece...
No, it;s not me! ... although as a Princeton alumnus myself, oddly enough, I'm surprised that he would have been spreading such misinformation with the...
Dickens implies the same thing in Martin Chuzzlewitt where Tom Pinch leaves the country for London and arrives by late afternoon ; �I don�t know what John...
Interesting, too, tnat you cite a piece from 1851 -- the year in which the French chef Alexis Soyer opened what is often considered to be the first 'proper'...
Hi, John, Florian, et al -- Has anyone looked into the French Sweeney Todd, Barnabe Cabard? The account I've read appears in the serially published Drames...
Some electronic malevolence chopped the last line or so of my preceding dithramb, which should conclude thus: ... "series would seem to suggest that there may...
Hi Bill, First I should check this out, a periodical in 15 volumes. Possibly an earlier version of yours ? R�pertoire g�n�ral des causes c�l�bres...
I checked all 15 volumes of the 1835 Causes Celebres I mentioned and dissapointingly found nothing on Barnabe Cabard or Miquelon. The whole was indexed with no...
A couple of issues that may or may not interest Sweeney Todd researchers. First the easy one: 1) The Princeton Festival, where I delivered my lecture on...
The first time I read Haining's works I was inclined to believe the stories as well. I think most people tend to give an author of non-fiction the benefit of...
From the looks of this Edward Lloyd may have been merely reprinting an earlier publishers work with his famous publication "History and Lives of the Most...
Correction ; I should have said penny reprints of Captain Johnson's Lives of Highwaymen, the original. A Beautiful copy of Whitehead's version just sold for...
I found a corroboration of the idea that Sweeney was based on the story of Barnabe Cabard in a New York Times Book Review letter Sept. 17, 1904. The letter...
It occured to me that some members may not have easy access to the new "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" entries on relevant individuals such as Edward...
Hi, florian -- Can't thank you enuf for the three texts from the ODNB; greatly appreciated. (Can't accept the attribution of The Black Monk to Rymer. however;...
An addition to the Rymer piece. Douglas Jerrold edited an early classy illustrated periodical, the Illuminated Magazine, starting in 1843. In addition to...
Incidentally, the device of a trick item of furniture of some kind (in this earlier instance, not a chair, but a bed) by the ingenious means of which people...
Well, as a contributor to the DNB myself, I can assure you that there are more than just a few omissions and errors within its pages, as you guys justly point...
Of course there would be errors and ommissions because so little information is available on these blood authors. I have access to an older version of DNB but...
I have compiled the following bibliography of (mostly) penny works from advertisements in Victorian periodicals, penny dreadfuls in the Barry Ono Collection...
Hi all, long-time lurker, first-time poster ... For the past couple of years I have been intermittently researching the Spring Heeled Jack mythos. I recall...
Hmmm. Well,SHJ has become mixed in with The Ripper and all sorts but I've never heard this one. Victorian Theatre/show folk were pretty much independent in...
... I've never heard this one. Victorian Theatre/show folk were pretty much independent in their own social grouping. I think this idea of theatricals behind...
My grand father,Bill,was a Bristol Member of The Order Of Buffaloes ["The Buffs"] as was my gran's father who was some kind of "grand master"! I know what you...
Terry, ... I assume that you mean Waterford (?) I dunno, I have Haining's book but I've also read Mike Dash's essay ... Either way, my current project is a...
