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The Newgate Calendar, subtitled The Malefactors' Bloody Register, was a popular work of improving literature in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Image of child murderer Thomas Hunter (executed August 1700) from The Newgate Calendar
18th-century illustration of William York, age 10, murdering Susan Matthew, age 5, on 13 May 1748, from The Newgate Calendar. York was sentenced to hang but was eventually pardoned.
Collected editions of these stories began to appear in the mid-18th century, and in 1774 a five-volume bound edition became the standard version. While many of its accounts are highly embellished and/or drawn uncritically from other sources, they are lively and full of incident, and often refer to contemporary events and social issues. Along with the Bible and John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, the Calendar was famously in the top three works most likely to be found in the average home.
A new edition was published in 1824 by Andrew Knapp and William Baldwin,[1] two lawyers, and a further edition in 1826, under the title, The New Newgate Calendar.
A penny dreadful edition of The New Newgate Calendar appeared between 1863 and 1866. The name Newgate Calendar was also used as a term expressing all crime;
...I also felt that I had committed every crime in the Newgate Calendar. (Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend)[2]
In literature
Tom Cringle in Michael Scott's novel Tom Cringle's Log apologises for interrupting the pirate smuggler Obed's confessional story, saying "It was not quite the thing to cut you short in the middle of your Newgate Calendar, Obed--beg pardon, your story I mean; no offence now, none in the world--eh?"
Thomas Carlyle wrote, in his Life of Friedrich Schiller: "Look at the biography of authors! Except the Newgate Calendar, it is the most sickening chapter in the history of man."[3]
References
^"Facts about the Newgate Calendar". The British Library. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
^Evans, Ivor H, ed. (1991). Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (14 ed.). London: Cassell. p. 776. ISBN0-304-34004-9.
^Carlyle, Thomas (1825). "Part II. From his Settlement at Mannheim to his Settlement at Jena. (1784–1790.)". The Life of Friedrich Schiller.
External links
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The Newgate Calendar Online reading and multiple ebook formats at Ex-classics.
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