La pie voleuse : the narrative of the magpie : or the maid of Palaiseau : being the history of the maid and the magpie : founded upon the circumstance of an unfortunate female having been unjustly sentenced to death, on strong presumtive evidence : with a preface and curious anecdotes.
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Publication details:
London : Printed by J. Swan for William Hone, 1815.
Record id:
84357
Subject:
Fenning, Elizabeth, -- 1793-1815 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
Evidence, Circumstantial -- Great Britain.
Trials (Murder) -- Great Britain.
Summary:
Hone's prose version of a popular drama produced in London and intended to recall the recent trial and execution of Elizabeth Fenning due to circumstantial evidence.
Note:
Narrative version of a drama.
Hone pirated Isaac Pocock's The maid and the magpie : a drama in three acts [in turn adapted from Caigniez' La pie voleuse]. Cf. A. Bowden, William Hone's political journalism, 1815-1821, pp. 34-35 for discussion of Hone's piracy.
T.p. woodcut vignette of a magpie hanging from a gallows by George Cruikshank. One of the earliest Cruikshank illustrations for Hone's pamphlets.
Cf. p. 101 of Hackwood cited below for Hone's account of the creation and success of this pamphlet.
Cohn, A.M. Cruikshank, 526
Hackwood, F.W. Hone, 7
Variant title:
Narrative of the magpie
Maid and the magpie
Phys. description:
18 p. ; 22 cm