Regency Crime and Punishment: The Bow Street Runners
“In fiction as well as in reality the dramatic element nearly always was supplied by the Bow Street Runner, popularly supposed to be a miracle Continue
“In fiction as well as in reality the dramatic element nearly always was supplied by the Bow Street Runner, popularly supposed to be a miracle Continue
Oh the novel. We might guess at its pulp status from the very lips of Jane, herself, speaking about her heroine in Northanger Abbey: “Yes, Continue
Don’t you hate it when media gives the modern age credit for all the black eyes on humanity?! As if violence, crime, and other social Continue
“Hell is a city much like London — A Populous and smoky city” -Shelley At the later part of the 18th century, as the beginning Continue