Machine generated contents note: An Account of Sarah Malcolm. The Life of Sawney Beane -- The Life of Thomas Savage -- An Account of the Murder of Joan Norcott -- The Life of Major George Strangwayes -- An Account of the Murder of the Rev. Mr John Talbot -- The Life of Mary Channel -- The Life of the German Princess -- The Life of Dick Bauf -- The Life of Colonel lames Turner -- The Life of Tom Kelsey -- The Life of Nan Hereford -- The Life of Moll Jones -- The Life of Tom Taylor -- The Life of George Seager -- The Life of Harman Strodtman -- The Life of Moll Raby -- The Life of Tom Sharp -- The Life of Ann Harris -- The Life of Ann Holland -- The Life of Jack Goodwin -- The Life of Will Elby -- The Life of Dick Low -- The Life of Jack Hall -- The Life of Madam Churchill -- The Life of Harvey Hutchins -- The Life of Tom Marsh -- The Life of Tom Gerrard -- The Life of Davy Morgan -- The Lives of Christopher Dickson, John Gibson, and Charles Weymouth -- The Lives of Jack Collings, Kit Moor, and Daniel Hughes -- The Life of Eleonor Sympson -- The Life of Rhoderick Audrey -- The Life of Will Chance -- The Life of James Filewood -- The Lives of William Ward, Samuel Lynn, Ralph Emmery, Robert Vickers, John Prior, and Francis Parquet -- The Lives of John Trippuck the Golden Tinman, Robert Crane, Thomas Charnock, and Richard Shepherd -- The History of the Waltham Blacks, and their Transactions, to the Death of Richard Parvin, Edward Elliot, Robert Kingshell, Henry Marshal, John and Edward Pink, and James Ansel, alias Philips, at Tyburn, whose Lives are also included -- The Life of Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin -- The Life of John Shepherd -- The Life of Lewis Houssart -- The Life of Jonathan Wild -- The Lives of Edward Burnworth, alias Frazier, William Blewit, Thomas Berry, Emanuel Dickenson, William Marjoram, John Higgs, &c. -- The Life of Catherine Hayes -- An Account of Sarah Malcolm.
Summary:
Buoyed by the runaway success of his bestselling 'A General History of the Pirates' (1724), Captain Charles Johnson went on to publish a much-expanded edition of the work to include a further 80 accounts of some of the most extraordinary British criminals of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries entitled 'A General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Pirates, Highwaymen, Murderers, Street-Robbers, &c. '(1734). He added further pirate biographies but expanded the cast to include a ferocious band of ruthless and vicious highwaymen, murderers, and wider criminals. Johnson's volumes, featuring fictional accounts based on factual sources, are significant as the forerunners of the real-life criminal biography genre, and for their influence on such early novels as Defoe's Moll Flanders and Fielding's Jonathan Wild but equally resonate right through to the present day inspiring the fiction of Ben Aaronovich and Jake Arnott. Originally published in folio size complete with fine engravings, this new collection of rogues includes the very best of these original decorative plates but also presents a series of related illustrations, playbills, and portraits from the British Library collections.
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