The Newgate Calendar
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Description: Lurid book which recounts the careers of various English criminals, from shoplifters to poisoners. This version based on the 1926 Navarre Society edition.
The Newgate Calendar - Introduction was one of those books, along with a Bible, , most likely to be found in any English home between 1750 and 1850. Children were encouraged to read it because it was believed to inculcate principles of right living -- by fear of punishment if not by the dull and earnest morals appended to the stories of highwaymen and other felons. The editors of one version even included as a frontispiece a
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| Page title: | The Newgate Calendar - Introduction |
| Keywords: | Newgate Calendar |
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| IP-address: | 107.21.240.159 |
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| Date | Creation Date: 10-jun-2003 Expiration Date: 10-jun-2014 |