A combination of one problem after another has kept me from answering anything for a while. Peter, I did get your message directly, although if you cc'd a copy...
Hi, John -- I couldn't put Edith the Captive down once I started it a few years ago. Rymer is a better romancer and writer than tmuch-heralded Ainsworth of...
Hi Bill, I remember you had mentioned your enjoyment of Edith The Captive, and I was spellbound while reading the story for myself. I had not known Blueskin...
Hello all, It's my belief, based on reading Ruth The Betrayer and The Dark Woman, that the author is one and the same, Malcolm Rymer. I am not convinced he...
Hi all, The interesting thing about Reynold's Miscellany is the Notices to Correspondent's column. The Victorians loved a masquerade, and they took on...
Hi All, A few more Jack Sheppard Romances; The History Of Jack Sheppard: His Wonderful Exploits And Escapes. A Romance founded on facts. With Original...
Hi all, Twice Round the Clock, or The Hours of the Day and Night in London, by George Augustus Sala, 1859 appears here (with mention of Jack Sheppard)...
Hi John, Thanks for the fine description of The History Of Jack Sheppard. I agree that Jack made a fine folk hero, same as Robin Hood; they would have been...
I'm new here, and I am wondering if some of you can point me to some penny dreadfuls that represent colonialist encounters (or any encounter) with the "other":...
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Dec 4, 2002 2:19 pm
HI! The later C19 boy's magazines are full of tales of adventure in foreign parts. One interesting example which I have is Percy St John, The Sailor Crusoe,...
Hello, I totally agree with Trefor. The later juvenile publications are full of this sort of thing. Just pick up any title with a nautical or pirate theme,...
Hi All, I hope I haven't sent this before, if I have just ignore it, I found it on one of my old CD Roms. This Notice appeared in the Boys' Comic Journal, in...
John The title page of Life And Adventures Of Jack Sheppard.. London : James Cochrane Pasted in the earlier book is a new edition of The History Of Jack...
Hi Peter, Thanks for the information.The History Of Jack Sheppard: His Wonderful Exploits And Escapes published by John Williams in 1837, the copy I read...
'Tis woman that seduces all mankind, By her we first were taught the wheedling arts; Her very eyes can cheat; when most she's kind, She tricks us of our money...
Dear All, I finally cracked and ordered something from the new Jarndyce Catalogue of bloods and penny dreadfuls; for my sins I'm now the happy owner of a small...
Hi Steve, Sala The Portrait of an Eminent Victorian By Ralph Strauss With a frontispiece in colour, sixteen plates of illustrations and others in the text...
Hi all, J. H. Dixon made a 'vile, ruffianly and cowardly' attack on Reynold's wife, in 'The Literature of the Lower Orders," in the Daily News, in October and...
Hi all, In Vol III. No. 59 Saturday, December 18, 1847, Reynolds had a further crack at the Daily News and this time issued a threat to the Author: The "Daily...
Thanks for your help. Now I have a newbie question: where can I find these magazines? Are they available on microfilm? ... full of this sort of thing. Just...
One of the reasons I did not even bother to suggest particular titles is that they are so hard to find. If you are doing research for a dissertation or...
Volume 2 of Young Englishman's Journal picks up from where volume 1 left off. "Well, duh!" I can see you all youngsters saying, but there is a reason to...
Hi Yolcukus, The Barry Ono Collection has been microfilmed and is available in quote a few US university libraries. That's probably your best bet unless you're...
Hi all, I have started checking out Rymer and Ellis on microfilm at the U. of A. It may take some time as I can only stand microfilm for an hour at a time....
Hi John, Nice work on Rymer. Just to confirm, his name was James Malcolm Rymer -- Errym and Merry were just pen-names. He was born in 1814 and died on August...
Hi Steve, "Yah! Bah! Boo!" cried the King. May Dudley; Or, The White Mask. By Malcolm J. Errym. Vol. 30, Reynolds's Miscellany. 1862. "Rymer was a very...
Hi, John -- Some notes: The New Mysteries of London is not BY Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz), but is illustrated by him. Phiz was Dickens' main illustrator, and...
Volume 3 begins with one of the best-known of the old penny dreadful novels (rather than "penny bloods"), the story of "Captain Jack" by George Emmett. This...
An advert from The Young Englishman, April 29, 1876: TO THE CURIOUS.--Ladies and gentlemen, send three stamps to Miss Alice Della, 22 Chatham-road, Camberwell,...
From The Young Englishman, May 27, 1876 A charade -- can anyone solve it? Answer tomorrow, along with the name of the young author who went on to become not...
