Jack Sheppard (1839 novel by William Harrison Ainsworth)

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"Jack Sheppard" is an 1839 historical crime novel by William Harrison Ainsworth that sensationalizes the life and exploits of the real 18th-century English thief and prison-breaker Jack Sheppard.

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instanceOf crime novel
novel
adaptedAs melodrama
stage play
author William Harrison Ainsworth NERFINISHED
basedOn Jack Sheppard (thief) NERFINISHED
contemporaryReception commercial success
moral controversy
contributedTo popularity of Newgate novels
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
criticizedBy William Makepeace Thackeray NERFINISHED
depicts London slums
Newgate Prison NERFINISHED
firstPublishedIn Bentley’s Miscellany NERFINISHED
follows rise and fall of Jack Sheppard
genre Newgate novel
crime fiction
historical fiction
hasCharacter Blueskin NERFINISHED
Edgeworth Bess NERFINISHED
Jonathan Wild NERFINISHED
hasTheme fate and free will
sensationalism of crime
social conditions in 18th-century London
illustrator George Cruikshank NERFINISHED
influenced Victorian crime fiction
inspiredBy life of Jack Sheppard
literaryMovement Victorian literature
literarySubject London underworld
crime
prison escape
mainCharacter Jack Sheppard NERFINISHED
mediaType print
narrativeForm third-person narrative
notableFor role in debates over the morality of Newgate fiction
sensational depiction of a real criminal
originalLanguage English
period early Victorian era
placeOfPublication London, England
surface form: London
protagonistBasedOn historical criminal
protagonistOccupation thief
publicationYear 1839
publisher Richard Bentley NERFINISHED
serialization serialized in Bentley’s Miscellany NERFINISHED
settingPeriod 18th century
timeOfAction circa 1700s

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