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Dick Turpin - Fact and Fiction (Hardcover)
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Dick Turpin - Fact and Fiction (Hardcover)
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Why does the notorious highwayman Dick Turpin have such an
extraordinary reputation today? How come his criminal career has
inspired a profusion of often misleading literature and film? This
eighteenth-century villain is often portrayed as a hero - dashing,
sinister, romantic, daring, a Robin Hood of his times. The reality,
as Jonathan Oates reveals in this perceptive, carefully researched
study, was radically different. He was a robber, torturer and
killer, a gangster whose posthumous reputation has eclipsed the
truth about his life. In the early 1700s Turpin progressed from
butcher's apprentice and poacher to become a member of the Gregory
gang which terrorized householders around London by robbery and
violence. Then came his two-year career as a highwayman robbing
travellers, his partnership with Matthew King whom he may have
killed in Whitechapel, his murder Thomas Morris in Epping Forest,
and his eventual capture and execution. Jonathan Oates recounts the
episodes in Turpin's short, brutal life in dramatic detail, basing
his narrative on contemporary sources - trial records and
newspapers in particular - and he traces the development of the
Turpin legend over 250 years through novels, ballads, plays,
television and film. The Dick Turpin who emerges from this rigorous
and scholarly biography is in many ways a more interesting man than
the legend suggests.
General
Imprint: |
Pen & Sword True Crime
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
March 2023 |
Authors: |
Jonathan Oates
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
272 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-399-07061-4 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-399-07061-4 |
Barcode: |
9781399070614 |
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