| Evidence: | Statement of juvenile offender:
"I never was in prison before. I was taken into custody for attempting to rob my master... I never saw 'Jack Sheppard' performed; I have read part of his life; I think he was a clever man; I don't know that reading his life created any difference in my mind." |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Jan 1830 and 31 Dec 1841 | ||||||||||
| Country: | England | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | J.H. |
| Age | Child (0-17) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | 1827 |
| Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
| Occupation: | juvenile offender |
| Religion: | n/a |
| Country of origin: | n/a |
| Country of experience: | England |
| Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Author: | William Harrison Ainsworth |
| Title: | Jack Sheppard |
| Genre: | Fiction, History, crime |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book, Serial / periodical, not sure if penny parts or volume |
| Publication details: | n/a |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 1575 | |
| Source - | Manuscript | Other |
| Author: | Parliamentary Papers, Select Committee on Criminal and Destitute Juveniles [Commons] 1852 (facsimile edn Irish University Press, Shannon, 1970), p. 420, |
| Citation: | Parliamentary Papers, Select Committee on Criminal and Destitute Juveniles [Commons] 1852 (facsimile edn Irish University Press, Shannon, 1970), p. 420, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1575, accessed: 19 April 2024 |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)