Catherine: A Murderess Told Against the Fashion for Newgate Heroes
Jul 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 43 full-page plates by William Hogarth, Thomas Gainsborough and Joseph Wright of Derby. Catherine Hayes, a servant girl, marries badly, poisons her way through it and is burnt at Tyburn — and Thackeray, sickened by novels that made criminals romantic, wrote her deliberately repellent to spoil the taste. Born in Calcutta and sent home at five, he lost his inheritance at cards and by then was writing for money; this 1839 serial is his attack on the Newgate novel, and his contempt keeps slipping into something like pity. Forty-three plates after Hogarth and Gainsborough, from a tavern night to a candlelit room, carry the low life and false glamour of the Newgate trade.
Complete and unabridged, with 43 full-page plates by William Hogarth, Thomas Gainsborough and Joseph Wright of Derby. Catherine Hayes, a servant girl, marries badly, poisons her way through it and is burnt at Tyburn — and Thackeray, sickened by novels that made criminals romantic, wrote her delib...
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William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) was an English novelist and satirist. He wrote for Punch and other periodicals, and published the novel Vanity Fair as a monthly serial from 1847 to 1848. His other works include The Luck of Barry Lyndon, The Newcomes, and The Rose and the Ring.
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) was an English novelist and satirist. He wrote for Punch and other periodicals, and published the novel Vanity Fair as a monthly serial from 1847 to 1848. His other works include The Luck of Barry Lyndon, The Newcomes, and The Rose and the Ring.
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