A “DARLING OF THE MOB”: THE ANTIDISCIPLINARITY OF THE …
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/victorian-literature-and-culture/article/abs/darling-of-the-mob-the-antidisciplinarity-of-the-jack-sheppard-texts/C89E3D582BF5B41CF4A7DA45369B30A3
Sep 12, 2013 . The story of Jack Sheppard, a jailbreaker hanged for theft in 1724, inspired William Harrison Ainsworth in 1839 to write a historical romance chronicling and fictionalizing Sheppard's exploits.Though first published in a middle-class magazine, Ainsworth's serialization of Sheppard's career in Jack Sheppard: A Romance (1839–1840) subsequently caused a sensation among lower-class …
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