Tales from the Terrific Register: The Book of Pirates and Highwaymen
Tales from the Terrific Register: The Book of Pirates and Highwaymen

Author: Cate Ludlow

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2010-03-12

Total Pages: 149

ISBN-13: 0750961759

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One hundred and eighty-five years ago, the Terrific Register thrilled its readers with tales of Turkish princes and wicked thieves, black-hearted murderers, wicked massacres and the boldest criminals ever to menace the traveller by land or sea. This selection contains the most graphic tales of highway thefts and dark deeds on the high seas. You will find herein the life of Blackbeard and the adventures of Henry Morgan, Welsh privateer and one of the most dangerous men ever to sail the Spanish Main; countless tales of murder and rapine by the wayside culminate in the strange story of the resurrected highwayman, brought back from the dead after his execution - forcing the authorities to hang him for the second time. Richly illustrated with original woodcuts, this fascinating volume will delight all lovers of high adventure.

The Book of Pirates and Highwaymen
The Book of Pirates and Highwaymen

Author: Cate Ludlow

Publisher: Tales from the Terrific Regist

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780752454177

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Richly illustrated with original woodcuts, this fascinating volume will delight all lovers of treacherous adventure.

International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature

Author: Peter Hunt

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-08-02

Total Pages: 1399

ISBN-13: 113443684X

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Children's publishing is a huge international industry and there is ever-growing interest from researchers and students in the genre as cultural object of study and tool for education and socialization.

Edward Lloyd and His World
Edward Lloyd and His World

Author: Sarah Louise Lill

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-05-01

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0429557612

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The publisher Edward Lloyd (1815-1890) helped shape Victorian popular culture in ways that have left a legacy that lasts right up to today. He was a major pioneer of both popular fiction and journalism but has never received extended scholarly investigation until now. Lloyd shaped the modern popular press: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper became the first paper to sell over a million copies. Along with publishing songs and broadsides, Lloyd dominated the fiction market in the early Victorian period issuing Gothic stories such as Varney the Vampire (1845-7) and other 'penny dreadfuls', which became bestsellers. Lloyd's publications introduced the enduring figure of Sweeney Todd whilst his authors penned plagiarisms of Dickens's novels, such as Oliver Twiss (1838-9). Many readers in the early Victorian period may have been as likely to have encountered the author of Pickwick in a Lloyd-published plagiarism as in the pages of the original author. This book makes us rethink the early reception of Dickens. In this interdisciplinary collection, leading scholars explore the world of Edward Lloyd and his stable of writers, such as Thomas Peckett Prest and James Malcolm Rymer. The Lloyd brand shaped popular taste in the age of Dickens and the Chartists. Edward Lloyd and his World fills a major gap in the histories of popular fiction and journalism, whilst developing links with Victorian politics, theatre and music.