Hi everyone, I just wanted to re-assure you all, that despite the apparent inactivity on out website, the next installments of Vileroy are on the way. This...
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Trefor Thomas
trefor.thomas@...
Oct 7, 2001 6:38 pm
Hi all! A query about a book I have recently picked up : it is "The Chronicles of Crime, or The New Newgate Calendar" in 2 Vols, pub 1841 by Thomas Tegg. Many...
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Justin Gilbert
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Oct 11, 2001 8:59 am
=========== CRIMES THAT INSPRIED PENNY BLOODS by John Medcraft THE COLLECTOR'S MISCELLANY N0. 12. May 1948 ======================================== Life...
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Kiera Chapman
kierachapman@...
Oct 11, 2001 12:48 pm
Thanks for this Michael- fascinating stuff! There is a hair-raising account of a murderous family highly similar to the
Sawney Beane story mentioned in this...
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Trefor Thomas
trefor.thomas@...
Oct 11, 2001 12:50 pm
Thanks to Justin/Michael for the info. on crime. Obviously things like the Newgate Chronicle were a major source for all fiction writers, from Rymer and Prest...
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Michael Holmes
varney@...
Oct 26, 2001 9:08 am
Hello to all, my lack of communication to the group was due to my being on tour in the States for a month. Although I did send a few messages from various...
Week Ending December 21, 1918. Peeps Into the Past. "Old-Time Periodicals." ... By Frank Jay. ... I must now return to the fifties to bring in one of the best...
Week Ending December 28, 1918. Peeps Into the Past. "Old-Time Periodicals." By Frank Jay. "THE HALFPENNY JOURNAL." "The Halfpenny Journal: A Magazine for all...
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Trefor Thomas
trefor.thomas@...
Oct 29, 2001 5:19 pm
I think it's time to thank the team who are bringing us Frank Jay's Peeps. The articles are certainly an unique source of detailed information about cheap...
Unfortunately about 1/4 of the 50 instalments are missing from what Bill loaned me. I think he has a second set that is equally lacking. I will try to get the...
Hi everyone - just quickly to clarify what Justin has written......we are going to try and get the other installments from the British Library - I have checked...
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Michael Holmes
varney@...
Oct 29, 2001 8:50 pm
I heartily agree. Fair play to you, Justin! The great thing about this project is that when ( and I presume it will come to pass ) you are able to get all of...
Week Ending December 28, 1918. Peeps Into the Past. "Old-Time Periodicals." ... By Frank Jay. ... I propose to leave for a time what I may term the more...
I thought I'd add some images to Frank Jays essays. This site http://www.library.yale.edu/~mpowell/victorianper.html#bb has pictures of some of the periodicals...
This is also from Bow Bells, and shows the first instalment of "The Young Cavalier," the serial that Jay praised so highly. I have been unable to determine the...
EPHEMERAL ISSUES—continued. "The London Penny Journal," from May 12 to July 7, 1832. Published by W. Strange, Paternoster Row. A very ordinary publication,...
Week Ending January 18, 1918. Peeps Into the Past. "Old-Time Periodicals." ... By Frank Jay. ... "THE BOYS OF ENGLAND." The first number of this extremely...
Dear All- Fans of J F Smith will be please to know that Justin Gilbert and Dick
Collins will be producing an e-text of *Minnigrey* for the Victorian Popular...
Dear All- I am trying to produce a bibliography of the works of E C (Elizabeth
Caroline) Grey, author of Vileroy. However, I've run into a problem with a
work...
Hello Kiera, George Locke, writing in The Quest for Bloods, gives a detailed description of this title, and since he had a copy in his possession this should...
Hi. I'm not sure if any of you can help me, but I am doing a presentation on crime and nineteenth century theatre and at the moment I am concentrating on...
Hello, K L Kearny -- The accessibility to you of the Ainsworth JS novel with its classic Cruikshank illos depends on where you are. Any sizable university or...
Dear Kirsten Here are a few good things relating to Jack Sheppard on the Stage: 1.'Jack Sheppard and the Licensers: The Case against Newgate Plays' by J. R. ...
Hello Kiersten, If you are interested in pictures of JS in general, e-mail me off-list. I have several penny dreadfuls and a few dime novels that have JS as a...
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Trefor Thomas
trefor.thomas@...
Nov 29, 2001 9:25 am
Hi all! Several of my e-mail correspondents have received a blank message from me with an attatchment which they cannot open. I did not knowingly send this...
Hello Kirsten, I can send you at least on JS scan. I wanted to send more, but unfortunately my copy won't open flat and is hard to scan. Justin ... Do You...
Hello Trefor, your virus does not seem to have spread to the list. The Warp and the Weft by J. F. Smith was first serialised in Cassell's Illustrated Family...
