Evidence: | Statement of juvenile offender:
"I never was in prison before. I have been at the Sanspareil, and at all the other theatres, except the Queen's. I never saw 'Jack Sheppard' performed. I have heard the prisoners speak about it many times: some would speak well of the play, others would say it was most of it false. I have read his Life; I think myself it is mostly false; there may have been such a man, but I think he could not go through all the exploits that is spoken of." |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Between 1 Jan 1830 and 31 Dec 1841 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | E.B. |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 1823 |
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: | 1574 | |
Source - | Manuscript | Other |
Author: | Parliamentary Papers, Select Committee on Criminal and Destitute Juveniles [Commons] 1852 (facsimile edn Irish University Press, Shannon, 1970), p. 419, |
Citation: | Parliamentary Papers, Select Committee on Criminal and Destitute Juveniles [Commons] 1852 (facsimile edn Irish University Press, Shannon, 1970), p. 419, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=1574, accessed: 28 November 2023 |
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