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Mansions of Misery - A Biography of the Marshalsea Debtors' Prison (Paperback)
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Mansions of Misery - A Biography of the Marshalsea Debtors' Prison (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 4 900
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For Londoners of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, debt was
a part of everyday life. But when your creditors lost their
patience, you might be thrown into one of the capital's most
notorious jails: the Marshalsea Debtors' Prison. In Mansions of
Misery, acclaimed chronicler of the capital Jerry White introduces
us to the Marshalsea's unfortunate prisoners - rich and poor; men
and women; spongers, fraudsters and innocents. We get to know the
trumpeter John Grano who wined and dined with the prison governor
and continued to compose music whilst other prisoners were tortured
and starved to death. We meet the bare-knuckle fighter known as the
Bold Smuggler, who fell on hard times after being beaten by the
Chelsea Snob. And then there's Joshua Reeve Lowe, who saved Queen
Victoria from assassination in Hyde Park in 1820, but whose heroism
couldn't save him from the Marshalsea. Told through these
extraordinary lives, Mansions of Misery gives us a fascinating and
unforgettable cross-section of London life from the early 1700s to
the 1840s.
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