DOCSLIB.ORG

Download PDF Catalogue

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Download PDF Catalogue Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers 46, Great Russell Street Telephone: 020 7631 4220 (opp. British Museum) Fax: 020 7631 1882 Bloomsbury, Email: [email protected] London www.jarndyce.co.uk WC1B 3PA VAT.No.: GB 524 0890 57 CATALOGUE CCXXVIII WINTER 2017-2018 THE MUSEUM Catalogue: Ed Nassau Lake. Production: Carol Murphy & Ed Nassau Lake. All items are London-published and in at least good condition, unless otherwise stated. Prices are nett. Items marked with a dagger (†) incur VAT (20%) to customers within the EU. A charge for postage and insurance will be added to the invoice total. We accept payment by VISA or MASTERCARD. If payment is made by US cheque, please add $25.00 towards the costs of conversion. Images of all items are available on the Current Catalogues page at www.jarndyce.co.uk JARNDYCE CATALOGUES CURRENTLY AVAILABLE, price £10.00 each, include: Books & Pamphlets 1641-1825; Sex, Drugs & Popular Medicine; Women Writers, Part I: A-F; European Literature in Translation; Bloods & Penny Dreadfuls; The Dickens Catalogue; Conduct & Education; Anthony Trollope, A Bicentenary Catalogue. The Romantics: A-Z, with The Romantic Background (four catalogues); JARNDYCE CATALOGUES IN PREPARATION include: 19th Century Novels; Women Writers (Part II: G-O); Plays; Turn of the Century, 1890-1920; English Language. PLEASE REMEMBER: If you have books to sell, please get in touch with Brian Lake at Jarndyce. Valuations for insurance or probate can be undertaken anywhere, by arrangement. A SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE is available for Jarndyce Catalogues for those who do not regularly purchase. Please send £30.00 (£60.00 overseas) for four issues, specifying the catalogues you would like to receive. THE MUSEUM ISBN: 978 1 910156-20-9 Price £10.00 Outside covers: adapted from item 279; inside back cover: item 219 Brian Lake Janet Nassau ABELARD 1 3 SCARCE EDITION IN CONTEMPORARY BINDING 1. (ABELARD, Pierre & ARGENTEUIL, Héloise d’) Letters of Abelard and Heloise. To which is prefix’d, a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes extracted chiefly from Monsieur Bayle. Translated from the French, by the late Mr. John Hughes. The fifth edition, corrected. Printed for J. Watts. [xii], 228pp, engraved frontispiece. 12mo. A nice clean copy. Full contemp. panelled calf; one corner bumped; a few light scuff marks to front board. Contemp. signature of Jam. Spagg on verso of front. & first page of preface. A v.g crisp copy in a contemporary binding. ¶ESTC N2941, BL, Nottingham & Oxford only in UK; Harvard (two copies) and Davis Library only in North America. Watts was the first publisher to translate the letters into English, the first edition being published in 1713. All of the first five editions by Watts are scarce with nine or fewer copies recorded. The letters tell the tale of the love and tragedy between the renowned scholastic philosopher and theologian Pierre Abélard, 1079-1142, and his lover Héloise d’Argenteuil. 1729 £280 ADULT SCHOOLS: MAIDENHEAD IMPRINT 2. ADULT SCHOOLS. Statement Respecting Adult Schools. Maidenhead: printed at the Library, by G. W. Wetton. Disbound. 27pp. ¶BL & Oxford only on Copac. An argument for the expansion of the existing state of adult schools in order to teach all adults to read with the dual result of spreading the teaching of the scriptures to a wider population and preventing the spreading of ignorance from parent to child. The proposal made is for the creation of a General Association composed of subscribers from twenty or thirty parishes, and of a General Fund to be raised through subscriptions. The aim is the creation of ‘an institution for teaching adults to read, in or to promote a knowledge of the Holy Scriptures’. The foreseen difficulties for the Association include the unwillingness of the poorer classes to be taught. ‘Other obstacles’ it states, ‘will no doubt be conceived to exist in the very circumstance of the comprehensive aims of an Institution which professes to embrace the interests of all the grown persons throughout a considerable district’. 1814 £250 ADVERTISING SAMPLE 3. ADVERTISING SAMPLE. SMITH, ELDER, & CO., Seal Engravers, and Die Sinkers, Cornhill, London. Beg respectfully to submit a few specimens of adhesive wafers, and to intimate that they have made arrangements with some of the best artists in London ... Smith, Elder, & Co. Single sheet, 18.5 x 11cm, embossed royal crest at head, printed in green with decorative borders, 11 examples of adhesive wafers, one on an envelope flap tipped on to lower margin; a few small marks, two old folds, previously tipped into an album. ¶A lovely example of an advertising sample for ‘fancy wedding, and mourning stationery’ by Smith, Elder & Co. Presumably this was an offshoot of the publishing company formed by George Smith and Alexander Elder but we can find no record of them as seal engravers and die sinkers. [c.1870] £120 † AINSWORTH, William Harrison See also item 112 4 5 6 CRUIKSHANK ILLUSTRATIONS 4. Jack Sheppard: a romance. With illustrations by George Cruikshank. G. Routledge & Co. Front. & 26 plates, with tissue guards. Original blue net-grained cloth, boards blocked in blind, spine decorated and lettered in gilt; slight rubbing. Recent booklabel of Ronald George Taylor. A nice copy. ¶See Sadleir 14 & Wolff 53 for the first edition in three volumes, 1839. The binding on this 1854 edition is, unusually, embossed in the lower blind border on the front board, ‘W. Bone & Son, Binders’. The spine decoration is signed ‘J.L.’ (John Leighton). The first one-volume edition appeared in 1840 in (viii), 480pp + plates. This edition, in viii, 344pp + plates, contains all the fine Cruikshank illustrations to Ainsworth’s highwayman novel. 1854 £120 TAUCHNITZ EDITION 5. The Lancashire Witches. A romance of Pendle Forest. Copyright edn. 2 vols. Leipzig: Bernh. Tauchnitz. (Collection of British Authors, vol. CLXII.) Series titles. 2 vols in 1. Contemp. quarter red morocco, continental marbled paper boards, spine dec. & lettered in gilt. A v.g. attractive copy. ¶First serialised in The Sunday Times in 1848, Ainsworth, in 1849, printed a few copies for private circulation among his friends. Printed in newspaper fashion with double columns it is regarded by some as the real first edition (Locke). The first edition, published by Henry Colburn, was issued in three volumes also in 1849. 1849 £75 AINSWORTH DICK TURPIN 6. Rookwood: a romance. Revised, corrected, and illustrated with a new preface, and notes, by the author. Richard Bentley. (Standard Novels, no. LX.) Series title, front. & additional engr. title, final ad. leaf. Ads on e.ps. Orig. purple cloth; spine faded to brown, boards a little faded. v.g. ¶Sadleir 3734a binding C; first published in 1834 and, as part of Bentley’s Standard Novels, in 1837. Rookwood, Ainsworth’s first full-blown novel, was published anonymously and, according to the Author, was an attempt at the gothic ‘bygone’ style of Mrs Radcliffe. The Dick Turpin sub-plot, with ‘flash’ slang was particularly popular with the public and contributed to the fashion for ‘Newgate’ novels. 1848 £75 __________ LITTLE WOMEN 7. ALCOTT, Louisa May. Little Women. Frederick Warne & Co. (Warne’s Star series.) Half title, 12pp cata. Orig. red cloth, dec. & lettered in black & gilt. Salvation Army prize label, 1904. v.g. [c.1900] £30 ALLY SLOPER THE FIRST BRITISH COMIC STRIP MAGAZINE - GILBERT DALZIEL’S COPY OF THE FIRST 35 ISSUES 8. (DALZIEL, Gilbert) Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday. Being a selection, side-splitting, sentimental, and serious, for the benefit of old boys, young boys, odd boys generally and even girls. Vol. I, no. 1 - no. 35. May 3 - Dec. 27, 1884. Printed for the proprietor, and published by W. J. Sunkins. 36 issues including ‘Ally Sloper’s Christmas Holiday’. A few small tears to gutter margin of no. 1, otherwise issues v.g. & clean. Signed ‘Gilbert Dalziel, Hampstead’ on leading f.e.p. Contemp. cloth boards & maroon calf corner pieces; expertly rebacked in matching calf, uplettered in gilt. v.g. ¶A rare opportunity to purchase the first 36 issues of what is considered to be one of the first British comic strip magazines. In 2001 a copy of the first issue sold for £3,600. The character of Ally Sloper was created by Charles Henry Ross and first drawn by his wife Emilie de Tessier when he appeared in the magazine Judy in 1867. Ross sold the rights of the character to the publisher and printer Gilbert Dalziel and in 1884 Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday became the first weekly comic magazine to be based on a single character, with images by the cartoonist William Giles Baxter. After Baxter’s death in 1888 Ally Sloper’s principal artist became William Fletcher Thomas who was later replaced by Charles Henry Chapman. At its peak of popularity, the weekly circulation is estimated to have been over 350,000. It ceased publication after 1,679 issues in 1916. After three failed comebacks, Ally Sloper was finally curtailed in 1977. Gilbert Dalziel, 1853-1930, was the son of the engraver and publisher Edward Dalziel, one half of the Dalziel Brothers. He studied at the Slade School of Art and apprenticed himself to the family business working on the publication Fun before moving on to Judy from whence Ally Sloper was born. 1884 £3,500 9. (DALZIEL, Gilbert) Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday. ... Vol. III, no. 88 - vol XII, no. 609. Printed for the proprietor, and published by W. J. Sunkins. Approximately 551 issues in 10 volumes, including 9 issues of ‘Ally Sloper’s Christmas Holidays’ & 20 duplicate issues from vol. III; initial leaves of vol. III a little dusted & creased at lower corner, first issue of vol. VII defective, occasional small marginal tears, some light browning, occasionally trimmed close to lower margin.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • From Juvenile Delinquent to Boy Murderer: Understanding Children Who Killed, 1816-1908
    From Juvenile Delinquent to Boy Murderer: Understanding Children Who Killed, 1816-1908. Betts, Eleanor Frances Winifred The copyright of this thesis rests with the author and no quotation from it or information derived from it may be published without the prior written consent of the author. For additional information about this publication click this link. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/11902 Information about this research object was correct at the time of download; we occasionally make corrections to records, please therefore check the published record when citing. For more information contact [email protected] From Juvenile Delinquent to Boy Murderer: Understanding Children Who Killed, 1816-1908. Eleanor Frances Winifred Betts Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements of the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy 1 Statement of Originality I, Eleanor F. W. Betts, confirm that the research included within this thesis is my own work or that where it has been carried out in collaboration with, or supported by others, that this is duly acknowledged below and my contribution indicated. Previously published material is also acknowledged below. I attest that I have exercised reasonable care to ensure that the work is original, and does not to the best of my knowledge break any UK law, infringe any third party’s copyright or other Intellectual Property Right, or contain any confidential material. I accept that the College has the right to use plagiarism detection software to check the electronic version of the thesis. I confirm that this thesis has not been previously submitted for the award of a degree by this or any other university.
    [Show full text]
  • Jack the Ripper in Film and Culture
    Jack the Ripper in Film and Culture Top Hat, Gladstone Bag and Fog Clare Smith General Editor: Clive Bloom Crime Files Series Editor Clive Bloom Emeritus Professor of English and American Studies Middlesex University London Since its invention in the nineteenth century, detective fi ction has never been more popular. In novels, short stories, fi lms, radio, television and now in computer games, private detectives and psychopaths, poisoners and overworked cops, tommy gun gangsters and cocaine criminals are the very stuff of modern imagination, and their creators one mainstay of popular consciousness. Crime Files is a ground-breaking series offering scholars, students and discerning readers a comprehensive set of guides to the world of crime and detective fi ction. Every aspect of crime writing, detective fi ction, gangster movie, true-crime exposé, police procedural and post-colonial investigation is explored through clear and informative texts offering comprehensive coverage and theoretical sophistication. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/[14927] Clare Smith Jack the Ripper in Film and Culture Top Hat, Gladstone Bag and Fog Clare Smith University of Wales: Trinity St. David United Kingdom Crime Files ISBN 978-1-137-59998-8 ISBN 978-1-137-59999-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-59999-5 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016938047 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 The author has/have asserted their right to be identifi ed as the author of this work in accor- dance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This work is subject to copyright.
    [Show full text]
  • Road Hill House Murder
    Road Hill House Murder Samuel Saville Kent was born on the 7th July 1800 in Allhallows, Middlesex, the son of Samuel Luck and Elizabeth Kent he was baptised on the 28th July 1800 in Whites Row Independent Chapel, Spitafileds, London, Middlesex. He married Mary Ann Windus, at St. John’s Church, Hackney, London on the 8th June 1829. Mary Ann was born in 1808, the daughter of a wealthy coach builder from Bishopsgate Street, London. They had 10 children, four of whom who were living at the time of the murder. These were Thomas Saville, born December 1830, died January 1832; Mary Ann Alice, born October 1831, died 13th February 1913; Elizabeth, born December 1832, died 1922; Edward Windus, born April 1835, died 11th July 1858; Henry Saville, born February 1837, died May 1838; Ellen, born September 1839, died December 1839; John Saville, Born March 1841, died July 1841; Julia, born April 1842, died September 1842; Constance Emily born 6th February 1844, died 10th April 1944 and William Saville, born 10th July 1845, died 11th October 1908. Of the surviving children the two older daughters, Mary Ann Alice and Elizabeth were born in Finsbury, Middlesex and the Constance Emily and William Saville in Sidmouth Devon. Mary Ann Windus Kent Samuel’s occupation as a Factory Commissioner for the Home Office, his duties required him to inspect factories that employed women and children. It also meant the family moved fairly often. Since Mary Ann had been ill for a long time, with an obstruction of the bowel, Samuel employed a very attractive governess, Mary Drewe Pratt to take care of his young family.
    [Show full text]
  • 2009 Apr Newsletter
    KU-RING-GAI HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC. Incorporating the Ku-ring-gai Family History Centre • Patron: The Mayor of Ku-ring-gai Affiliated with the Royal Australian Historical Society, the National Trust of Australia (NSW), The Society of Australian Genealogists, and the NSW & ACT Association of Family History Societies Inc. August 2012 Newsletter Vol. 30 No. 7 PO Box 109 Gordon NSW 2072 • Ph: (02) 9499 4568 • www.khs.org.au • email: [email protected] Rooms: 799 Pacific Highway Gordon Meetings held in the Gordon Library Meeting Room, 799 Pacific Highway Gordon The Road Hill Murder of 1860 General Meeting and At Road Hill House, Wiltshire, in the summer of 1860, Annual General Meeting four-year-old Francis Savill Kent was savagely murdered, apparently by some member of the household. The case – Saturday 18 August 2.00 pm headlined in the British press, and discussed in parliament – was investigated by the famed Jack Whicher, an early followed by detective at Scotland Yard. Various members of the upper Captain Thunderbolt and his Lady middle class family were in turn suspect, including Mr Samuel Savill Kent, the victim’s father; the live-in nursemaid, Miss Gough, and the victim’s half-siblings Constance Emilie and William Savill Kent, 16 and 15 years, perhaps acting Speaker: Carol Baxter together. Constance, a tough-minded young woman ill at Popular author and ease with her father’s second wife, protesting innocence, genealogist Carol was tried for the crime. The charge was unproven; the Baxter with the true crime unsolved. story of New England Five years later, Constance confessed to carrying out bushranger Frederick Ward and Mary Ann the murder, acting alone.
    [Show full text]
  • Hanging the Servant Girl to Hunting the Ripper: the Victorian Birth of the True Crime Genre Set
    Eastern Illinois University The Keep Masters Theses Student Theses & Publications 2016 Hanging the Servant Girl to Hunting the Ripper: The icV torian Birth of the True Crime Genre Jonathan G. Brown Eastern Illinois University This research is a product of the graduate program in English at Eastern Illinois University. Find out more about the program. Recommended Citation Brown, Jonathan G., "Hanging the Servant Girl to Hunting the Ripper: The ictV orian Birth of the True Crime Genre" (2016). Masters Theses. 2432. https://thekeep.eiu.edu/theses/2432 This is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Theses & Publications at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in Masters Theses by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The Graduate School~ EA5rERJ;I illiNOIS UNIVERSITY" Thesis Maintenance and Reproduction Certificate FOR: Graduate Candidates Completing Theses in Partial Fulfillment of the Degree Graduate Faculty Advisors Directing the Theses RE: Preservation, Reproduction, and Distribution of Thesis Research Preserving, reproducing, and distributing thesis research is an important part of Booth Library's responsibility to provide access to scholarship. In order to further this goal, Booth Library makes all graduate theses completed as part of a degree program at Eastern Illinois University available for personal study, research, and other not-for-profit educational purposes. Under 17 U.S.C. § 108, the library may reproduce and distribute a copy without infringing on copyright; however, professional courtesy dictates that permission be requested from the author before doing so. Your signatures affirm the following: • The graduate candidate is the author of this thesis.
    [Show full text]
  • ミステリSFコレクション（洋図書） 1 資料番号 書名 請求記号 a Dictionary of Monsters and Mysterious Beasts / Carey Miller ; Illustrated 2011413056 001/Mi27 by Mary I
    ミステリSFコレクション（洋図書） 1 資料番号 書名 請求記号 A dictionary of monsters and mysterious beasts / Carey Miller ; illustrated 2011413056 001/Mi27 by Mary I. French.-- Pan Books; c1974.-- (Piccolo original). Return to the stars : evidence for the impossible / by Erich von Däniken ; 2011411224 001.94/D37 translated by Michael Heron.-- Transworld Publishers; 1972. Rosenbach : a biography / by Edwin Wolf 2nd with John F. Fleming.-- 2011413486 002.07/W84 World Publishing; c1960. Holiday catalogue : The mysterious bookshop ; 1994, 1996, 1996 spring- 2011414227 011/H83 summer.-- The mysterious bookshop; 1994-. Holiday catalogue : The mysterious bookshop ; 1994, 1996, 1996 spring- 2011414228 011/H83 summer.-- The mysterious bookshop; 1994-. Holiday catalogue : The mysterious bookshop ; 1994, 1996, 1996 spring- 2011414229 011/H83 summer.-- The mysterious bookshop; 1994-. The list of books / Frederic Raphael, Kenneth McLeish.-- Harmony 2011413466 011/R17 Books; 1981. Subject guide to books in print : an index to the publishers' trade list 2011414166 015.73/P88 annual, 1963 / editen by Shrah L.Prakken.-- R.R. Bowker; 1963. By us! / society by crime writers in Stockholm ; translation by Claudia Brä 2011414299 018/C92 nnback.-- Härnösands Boktryckeri AB; 1981. The paperback price guide / by Kevin Hancer ; pbk..-- Overstreet 2011412078 018.4/H28 Publications. The paperback price guide / by Kevin Hancer ; pbk..-- Overstreet 2011412079 018.4/H28 Publications. 2011410672 Le Placard / John Burningham.-- Flammarion; c1975. 028.5/B93 2011410676 The little house / story and pictures by Virginia Lee Burton.-- Faber; 028.5/B94 Dr. George Gallup's 1956 pocket almanac of facts / Robert W. Mangold 2011414192 051/Ma43 and S. Arthur.-- Pocket Books; 1956.-- (A Cardinal Giant ; GC-1956).
    [Show full text]
  • Imagination and Prison
    Imagination and Prison by Wendy Walker When I discovered the story of Constance Kent in 1978, I immediately thought what a novel it would make. I was writing my !rst novel at the time and knew the case would demand a very di"erent treatment. Twelve years and three books later, I felt ready to tackle the project. #e things that fascinated me then still fascinate me now. Constance Kent was a profoundly enigmatic individual. She confessed to a crime she almost certainly did not commit long after such confession would bene!t anyone. She served a prison sentence of twenty years and lived another sixty after that. Her second life occurred in a new country under a new name, but she remained faithful to her “confession” until the end. It is not Constance alone, however, that drew me to this story. #e historical facts contain features that would stretch credibility in !ction: the comet that appeared on the night of the crime, the drowned sailor who comes back to life, the coincidences straight out of melodrama, the Dickensian names of the minor players, the allegorical place names. #ese features !nd a peculiar strength inside a set of circumstances which has both fairy-tale and tragic structure. King Lear, Hansel and Gretel, and #e Wild Swans take turns. And, as if this were not enough, all the elements of a great romantic novel are there: church intrigue, the corrupt law, incompetent police, and the insensitive “expert.” #e actual Road Murder, as it was called, foretold the classical whodunnit. Twelve people in a country house, one of whom is killed, the rest claiming to know nothing.
    [Show full text]
  • Robert Hart's Encounter With
    Concentric: Literary and Cultural Studies 41.1 March 2015: 141-165 DOI: 10.6240/concentric.lit.2015.41.1.07 A Tale of Two Diaries: Robert Hart’s Encounter with “Mont Blanc Albert” in Canton, Sept. 1858 Henk Vynckier Department of Foreign Languages and Literature Tunghai University, Taiwan Abstract When still a junior official in the British Consular Service in Canton, Robert Hart (1835-1911), who would later achieve fame as the Inspector General of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, met Albert Richard Smith (1816-60), the mid-Victorian comic writer and diorama presenter, who was traveling in China to collect material for a stage show. Though both reported on Smith’s visit to Canton in their respective diaries, Hart’s brief interlude with Smith has never been discussed and the relevant passages in their diaries have not been cross-examined. Yet, close reading the respective diary entries next to one another for the first time some one hundred and fifty years after they were composed can achieve several objectives. First, the diaries provide some raw material for the biographical understanding of the young Robert Hart, which is important considering that more than a hundred years following his death there is as of yet no complete biography of “the most powerful Westerner in China” (Jonathan Spence). Second, they illustrate the generic and stylistic differences between a diary which is meant to be published and one which is conceived as a purely private “closed book” diary. Third, they shed light on two different modes of seeing/narrating China—the sightseeing tourist Smith and the long-term expatriate resident Hart—and, thus, contribute to our understanding of the British imaginary of China during the heyday of empire.
    [Show full text]
  • Miscellaneous Manuscripts Collection, Ca
    http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf829008pt No online items Miscellaneous manuscripts collection, ca. 1750- LSC.0100 UCLA Library Special Collections staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé and edited by Josh Fiala. UCLA Library Special Collections Finding aid last modified on 13 November 2019. Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library Box 951575 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575 [email protected] URL: https://www.library.ucla.edu/special-collections Miscellaneous manuscripts LSC.0100 1 collection, ca. 1750- LSC.0100 Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections Title: Miscellaneous manuscripts collection Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0100 Physical Description: 136.5 Linear Feet(261 boxes, 6 cartons, and 20 oversize boxes) Date: circa 1750- Stored off-site at SRLF. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance through our electronic paging system using the request button located on this page. Language of Material: English . Conditions Governing Access Portions of collection unprocessed. Boxes 204-280 are unavailable for access. Please contact Special Collections reference ([email protected]) for more information. Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright. Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Miscellaneous manuscripts collection (Collection 100). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E.
    [Show full text]
  • Download (462Kb)
    This is an Open Access document downloaded from ORCA, Cardiff University's institutional repository: http://orca.cf.ac.uk/107345/ This is the author’s version of a work that was submitted to / accepted for publication. Citation for final published version: Llewellyn, Mark 2018. Are all (neo-) Victorians murderers? Serials, killers and other historicidal maniacs. Literature Compass 15 (7) , e12462. 10.1111/lic3.12462 file Publishers page: https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12462 <https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12462> Please note: Changes made as a result of publishing processes such as copy-editing, formatting and page numbers may not be reflected in this version. For the definitive version of this publication, please refer to the published source. You are advised to consult the publisher’s version if you wish to cite this paper. This version is being made available in accordance with publisher policies. See http://orca.cf.ac.uk/policies.html for usage policies. Copyright and moral rights for publications made available in ORCA are retained by the copyright holders. 1 Are all (Neo-)Victorians Murderers? Serials, Killers and Other Historicidal Maniacs Abstract What role do the acts of murder and dis(re)membering play in contemporary culture’s use of the Victorian? This article makes a deliberately provocative intervention in questioning the way in which the genre of neo-Victorianism raises ethical issues about real lives, the reading and writing of “true crime” and the position of the critic/historian. Beginning with a factual twenty-first century murder case and the role of Victorian reading matter as a marker of suspicion, even a sign of guilt, in the public consciousness and press reporting of the case, the article moves on to explore the tensions in re- visioning reality as quasi-fiction in a case study of the work of Kate Summerscale, focussing on the slippage between the figures of the writer, the detective, and the historian in The Suspicions of Mr Whicher (2008) and The Wicked Boy (2016).
    [Show full text]
  • Thackeray's Qualifications As a Literary Critic
    CHAPTER I Thackeray's Qualifications as a Literary Critic I. Thackeray's first qualification for literary criticism was the "aesthetic edu­ cation" which he underwent rather outside the walls of school and university huildings than inside them and which eventually proved more rewarding than the school and university curricula, although his formal education, being good, even though unfinished, does of course form a very important part of his endowment. This informal and voluntary aesthetic education had many aspects, the chief of them being the discussions on art and literature which he carried on with his school and later his University friends, his extensive reading, both his regular and his voluntary study of the art of painting in the Paris and London studios, museums and galleries, his visits to theatres and concerts, and his own early activities as writer, critic and caricaturist. One of the most important assets for him as literary critic was of course his extensive knowledge of literature, especially of those genres which later became the main subject of his critical interest (fiction, historical, biographical and travel-books), but also of those to which he paid, as critic, lesser attention (poetry and drama). We possess much direct evidence concerning his familiarity with the works of a very great number of classical, English, French, German, Italian and American writers, supplied by the records of his reading in his diaries, by the state of his library, the testimony of his friends, the records of his conversations, numerous occasional references to individual books and writers in his works and correspondence, and of course the bibliography of his criticism.
    [Show full text]
  • Sensation Trials, Or Causes Célèbres
    This is a reproduction of a library book that was digitized by Google as part of an ongoing effort to preserve the information in books and make it universally accessible. https://books.google.com Crim . PENCE SIX NE SHILLING & 54 4 SENSATION TRIALS CHIEFLY , HICH LIFE TAND CAUSES CÉLEBRES . MURRAY & Cº , 13 . PATERNO STER ROW . im . Sh * livilian 52 6 . the ni figura ! towar times 05 = 7 . of a cal as in are 10 in the But faction both il sequer : 34 545 , Just as rator 8 . of a de accord son ! decim bwest For SENSATION TRIALS , OR CAUSES CÉLÈBRES ( CHIEFLY IN HIGH LIFE ) , & c . , & c . ! BY CIVILIAN . “ The more conspicuous in the social clan , The more degraded by the felon's ban . ” IMITATION . LONDON : MURRAY & CO . , 13 PATERNOSTER ROW . 1865 . ( All rights reserved . ) BIBLIOTHL REGIA MONAGENSIS LONDON : EMILY FAITHFULL , PRINTER IN ORDINARY TO HER MAJESTY , VICTORIA PRESS , S3A FARRINGDON STREET . CONTENTS BOOK I. CHAP . PREFACE ... i . 1. - GENERAL REMARKS ON CRIME 12 II . - A MODERN AND MODEL BANK 20 III . — THE RUGELY SURGEON : WILLIAM PALMER 28 IV . - SADLEIR , TREASURY LORD AND M.P. 43 V. - REDPATH THE 5 LUXURIOUS ” ... 50 VI . - DR , SMETHURST 54 VII . - ROUPELL , ANOTHER M.P. 59 VIII . - CATHARINE WILSON 65 IX . - MADELEIN SMITH 72 X. - MULLER 77 XI.- ANOTHER BANK M.P. FOR DUPESBURY ! 82 BOOK II . 1.- Waugh's BANKRUPTCY : CAMPDEN HOUSE , & c . 91 II.- LUNACY LAW : WYNDHAM'S CASE 106 III . - DIVORCE FOR THE MILLION : LOTHARIO V. BEATRICE 116 IV . — THE YELVERTON IMBROGLIO 130 V. - KITEDOM - MONEY LENDERS 140 BOOK III . 1. - CONSTANCE KENT AND THE CONFESSIONAL 147 ii CONTENTS .
    [Show full text]