The Newgate novels (or Old Bailey novels) were novels published in England from the late 1820s until the 1840s that glamorised the lives of the criminals they portrayed. Most drew their inspiration from the Newgate Calendar, a biography of famous criminals published during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and usually rearranged or embellished the original tale for melodramatic effect. The novels caused great controversy, and drew criticism in particular from the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, who satirised them in several of his novels and attacked the authors openly.
The Newgatenovels (or Old Bailey novels) were novels published in England from the late 1820s until the 1840s that glamorised the lives of the criminals...
anxieties. Its literary forebears included the melodramatic novels and the Newgatenovels, which focused on tales woven around criminal biographies; it...
The Newgate Calendar, subtitled The Malefactors' Bloody Register, was a popular collection of moralising stories about sin, crime, and criminals who commit...
Newgate Prison was a prison at the corner of Newgate Street and Old Bailey Street just inside the City of London, England, originally at the site of Newgate...
archetypal Newgatenovel, it generally remains close to the facts of Sheppard's life, but portrays him as a daring hero. Like Hogarth's prints, the novel pairs...
134–135 Paul Davis 2007, pp. 129, 134 Keith Hollingsworth (1963), The NewgateNovel, 1830–1847, Bulwer, Ainsworth, Dickens & Thackeray, Detroit: Wayne State...
Littlefield, ISBN 978-0-7425-4744-5 Hollingsworth, Keith (1963), The NewgateNovel 1830–1847, Detroit: Detroit: Wayne State University Press, ISBN 0-8143-1215-2...
directors like Sirk.[citation needed] List of melodrama films Legal drama Newgatenovel Pantomime Serial (radio and television) Soap opera Space opera Telenovela...
outside Newgate Prison in London of the murderer François Benjamin Courvoisier, who blames the influence of W. Harrison Ainsworth's Newgatenovel Jack Sheppard...
Defoe's death in 1731. The novel is based partially on the life of Moll King, a London criminal whom Defoe met while visiting Newgate Prison. Historically,...
Before pulp magazines, Newgatenovels (1840s-1860s) fictionalized the exploits of real-life criminals. Later, British sensation novels gained peak popularity...
Michael Crichton (2002). The Terminal Man. New York: Avon Books. p. 181. Newgate Callendar (August 20, 1972). "Criminals at Large". The New York Times....
the hospital, he finds himself in mortal danger. In a 1972 book review, Newgate Callandar of The New York Times wrote "James works in the old tradition...
crimes. The story appeared in The Newgate Calendar, a sensationalised crime catalogue loosely connected with Newgate Prison in London. It has since passed...
The Bride of Newgate, first published in 1950, is a historical whodunnit novel by American writer John Dickson Carr, which does not feature any of Carr's...
character in the historical novel Shark Alley: The Memoirs of a Penny-a-Liner by Stephen Carver (2016), in which the Newgate Controversy is dramatized....
are considered as early examples of the Newgatenovel. In 1836 he released The Self-Condemned a historical novel set in Elizabethan Ireland. He was for...
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