Titlebook: Dickens and Crime; Philip Collins Book 1994Latest edition Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1994 Charles Dick

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Murder: From Bill Sikes To Bradley Headstone,he small charge of a penny weekly; which considering that there was an illustration to every number, in which there was always a pool of blood, and at least one body, was cheap.’ As a young man, he still had a ‘passion for sensational novels’, which he would ‘carry away by the pile’ from his circula

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The Mysteries in ,,lude. Many guesses have been made, but the topic has unfortunately attracted too much commentary on a level with that of ‘Baconian’ theories of Shakespeare — trivial and wrong-headed and uncontrolled by any real feeling for the author and his methods. Dickens’s daughter Katey sensibly protested that

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,The Silent System — Coldbath Fields Prison, and Visiting Magistrates, so I shall fully describe only the events at Coldbath Fields; these are much better documented, partly because Chesterton wrote two books — an autobiography, . (1853), and a book of memoirs and reflections, . (1856). Moreover Coldbath Fields was the more famous and importa

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,The Separate System — Philadelphia and the Bastille,he Anglo-Saxon world: for when a German professor undertook an international tour in 1846, to report to the King of Prussia on current penal experiments, he too felt impelled to quote and discuss Dickens’s . chapter on Philadelphia, since the views there expressed would, he said, influence German pu

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The Police,ntemporary. ‘His papers in . were a revelation to the public, and the life portraits he drew of some of the most notable men employed in this comparatively new branch of criminal pursuit were the just rewards accorded to those excellent officers.’. Some of his readers, however, deplored the ‘almost

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The Punishment of Death, stronger in the true principles every day’, he never — in my view — progressed very far in political Radicalism. He never wanted, or even envisaged, a society much different from his own in its social and political and economic organisation. Likewise, in penal reform, he regarded himself as a moder

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