newgate in A Sentence

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    The Newgate Calendar.

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    His brother Nicholas was sentenced to 40 lashes and life imprisonment at Newgate Prison.

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    While Fielding's story lists three marriages, the Newgate Calendar reported that Mary had enjoyed 14 wives.

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    The execution of these three murderers attracted quite a bit of public interest, and an estimated 40,000 people turned up outside Newgate Prison and the Old Bailey.

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    Blake's first biographer, Alexander Gilchrist, records that in June 1780 Blake was walking towards Basire's shop in Great Queen Street when he was swept up by a rampaging mob that stormed Newgate Prison in London.

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    The“novels of Newgate” were similarly attacked in the specialized press, with Jack Sheppard described in the magazine Athenæum as“one more of a kind of bad books, supported by bad readers”, and the humorous magazine Punch publishing a satirical«Literary Recipe»For a shocking romance(…).

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