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...
And I would be more than happy to join! Kind regards, Theo Visit my blogspot here: www.hyborea.blogspot.com ... Van: Tony Wolf <lone_wolf_9@...> Datum:...
Here's some 'authoritative' information on John Thomas Dicks, the Ally Sloper Group, and Edwin Brett. My name is Robert, incidentally; I have more often...
For anyone interested in John Dicks or G.W.M. Reynolds, I'd like to recommend the recently published The John Dicks Press by Guy Dicks. It is available from...
I'v ordered the Guy Dicks book and while browsing I came across a modern reprinting in the UK of the original String of Pearls, Wordsworth Editions Ltd. Info...
Hello. At the moment i'm writing a dissertation on 'Dick Turpin: The Evolution of a Legend'. In one of my chapters I will be focussing upon Penny Bloods and ...
1845 *Tales of Shipwrecks and Adventures at Sea* "containing talented sketches of the sea and seamen, and truthful narratives of shipwrecks, fires, mutinies,...
Black Bess, the Blue Dwarf (Percy B. St. John edition) and one from the Ono collection on microfilm May Turpin, Queen of the Road. A word search of Peeps...
While browsing Edward Viles I found two entries in Notes & Queries. One seems to be a Note written by Viles himself ; SHAKSPEARIANA: THE HARNESS SHAKSPEARE...
For those interested in such things, the Australian Gutenberg site has just put up a transcription of one of the SHJ dreadfuls (Jack Dacre version). ...
Mike, ... I think we've already seen this one online somewhere ... I'm especially interested in Jack's proto-superheroic incarnations; I don't suppose anyone...
Hello, I can certainly identify it. This serial appeared in The Boy's Standard in six installments from No. 219, Saturday, July 18, 1885 to No. 224, August...
I have a copy of Arabian Nights published by Porter and Coates.In many of the illustrations at the bottom corner are the words N.Orr-co.I have tried to...
I puzzled over this quite some time ago as well. In message 1205 I found the answer. From the House Of Beadle And Adams : "The engraving of the cuts for the...
I've just returned from a trip to the UK where I was fortunate enough to find and purchase an original Spring Heeled Jack Penny Dreadful. The issue I picked up...
