Con men and cutpurses : scenes from the Hogarthian underworld
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Con men and cutpurses : scenes from the Hogarthian underworld
Penguin, 2001
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Originally published: London: Allen Lane, 2000
Includes bibliographical references (p. xxvii-[xxviii])
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This text is a collection of historical accounts of 18th-century roguery, criminality and skull-duggery. It features a diverse gallery of criminals, ranging from infamous thieves and murderers, whores and highway men, pirates and fraudsters. With extracts from popular journalism and biographical accounts, this volume presents the 18th-century criminal underworld in the idiomatic language of the time.
Table of Contents
- The Hogarthian underworld
- murderers
- prostitutes
- thieves
- pirates
- sex offenders
- highwaymen
- confidence tricksters
- a miscellany. Appendix: the Black Act.
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