EPISODES IN AN OBSCURE LIFE
Rowe, Richard (1828–1879), was a Wesleyan minister, based for some time in the East End. You can already find his posthumously published Life in the London Streets (aka Picked up in the Streets) on the website but I've now added Episodes in an Obscure Life. The former is the better compilation, but the latter, despite being rather preachy, is an interesting read in places.
Sunday, 30 December 2007
Saturday, 15 December 2007
Google Me Up!
GOOGLE ME UP!
Google seems to refuse to follow through to index all chapters in Mysteries of London and Sweeney Todd ... it only indexes the first chapter. Possibly it thinks there's something suspicious going on, with all those files with similar names. So, forgive me, I'm going to try to speed the process up by putting some links here, and seeing if it helps ... here's Sweeney Todd ...
and here's Mysteries of London
Google seems to refuse to follow through to index all chapters in Mysteries of London and Sweeney Todd ... it only indexes the first chapter. Possibly it thinks there's something suspicious going on, with all those files with similar names. So, forgive me, I'm going to try to speed the process up by putting some links here, and seeing if it helps ... here's Sweeney Todd ...
Chapter 1 - The Strange Customer at Sweeney
Todd's
Chapter 2 - The Spectacle Maker's Daughter
Chapter 3 - The Dog and the Hat
Chapter 4 - The Pie-shop in Bell Yard
Chapter 5 - The Meeting in the Temple
Chapter 6 - The Conference, and the Fearful
Narration in the Garden
Chapter 7 - The Barber and the Lapidary
Chapter 8 - The Thieves' Home
Chapter 9 - Johanna at Home, and the
Resolution
Chapter 10 - The Colonel and His Friend
Chapter 11 - The Stranger at Lovett's
Chapter 12 - The Resolution come to by Johanna
Oakley
Chapter 13 - Johanna's Interview with Arabella
Wilmot, and the Advice
Chapter 14 - Tobias's Threat, and its
Consequences
Chapter 15 - The Second Interview between
Johanna and the Colonel in the Temple Gardens
Chapter 16 - The Barber Makes Another Attempt
to Sell the String of Pearls
Chapter 17 - The Great Change in the Prospects
of Sweeney Todd
Chapter 18 - Tobias's Adventures During the
Absence of Sweeney Todd
Chapter 19 - The Strange Odour at St.
Dunstan's Church
Chapter 20 - Sweeney Todd's Proceedings
Consequent upon the Departure of Tobias
Chapter 21 - The Misadventure of Tobias. The
Mad-House
Chapter 22 - The Mad-House Cell
Chapter 23 - The New Cook to Mrs. Lovett's
Gets Tired of his Situation
Chapter 24 - The Night at the Mad-House
Chapter 25 - Mr. Fogg's Story at the Mad-House
to Sweeney Todd
Chapter 26 - Colonel Jeffery Makes Another
Effort to Come at Sweeney Todd's Secret
Chapter 27 - Tobias Makes an Attempt to Escape
from the Mad-House
Chapter 28 - The Mad-House Yard, and Tobias's
New Friend
Chapter 29 - The Consultation of Colonel
Jeffery with the Magistrate
Chapter 30 - Tobias's Escape from Mr. Fogg's
Establishment
Chapter 31 - The Rapid Journey to London of
Tobias
Chapter 32 - The Announcement in Sweeney
Todd's Window. Johanna Oakley's Adventure.
Chapter 33 - The Discoveries in the Vaults of
St. Dunstan's
Chapter 34 - Johanna Alone. The
Secret. Mr. Todd's Suspicions. The Mysterious Letter
Chapter 35 - Sweeney Todd Commences Clearing
the Road to Retirement
Chapter 36 - The Last Batch of the Delicious
Pies
Chapter 37 - The Prisoner's Plan of Escape
from the Pies
Chapter 38 - Sweeney Todd Shaves a Good
Customer. The Arrest
Chapter 39 - The Conclusion.
and here's Mysteries of London
Title Page
Prologue
Chapter I - The House in Smithfield
Chapter II - The Mysteries of the Old House
Chapter III - The Trap-Door
Chapter IV - The Two Trees
Chapter V - Eligible Acquaintances
Chapter VI - Mrs. Arlington
Chapter VII - The Boudoir
Chapter VIII - The Conversation
Chapter IX - A City Man. Smithfield Scenes.
Chapter X - The Frail One's Narrative
Chapter XI - "The Servants' Arms"
Chapter XII - Bank Notes
Chapter XIII - The Hell
Chapter XIV - The Station-House
Chapter XV - The Police-Office
Chapter XVI - The Beginning of Misfortunes
Chapter XVII - A Den of Horrors
Chapter XVIII - The Boozing-Ken
Chapter XIX - Morning
Chapter XX - The Villa
Chapter XXI - Atrocity
Chapter XXII - A Woman's Mind
Chapter XXIII - The Old House in Smithfield Again
Chapter XXIV - Circumstantial Evidence
Chapter XXV - The Enchantress
Chapter XXVI - Newgate
Chapter XXVII - The Republican and the Resurrection Man
Chapter XXVIII - The Dungeon
Chapter XXIX - The Black Chamber
Chapter XXX - The 26th of November
Chapter XXXI - Explanations
Chapter XXXII - The Old Bailey
Chapter XXXIII - Another Day at the Old Bailey
Chapter XXXIV - The Lesson Interrupted
Chapter XXXV - Whitecross-street Prison
Chapter XXXVI - The Execution
Chapter XXXVII - The Lapse of Two Years
Chapter XXXVIII - The Visit
Chapter XXXIX - The Dream
Chapter XL - The Speculation. - An Unwelcome Meeting
Chapter XLI - Mr. Greenwood
Chapter XLII - The Dark House
Chapter XLIII - The Mummy
Chapter XLIV - The Body-Snatchers
Chapter XLV - The Fruitless Search
Chapter XLVI - Richard and Isabella
Chapter XLVII - Eliza Sydney
Chapter XLVIII - Mr. Greenwood's Visitors
Chapter XLIX - The Document
Chapter L - The Drugged Wine-Glass
Chapter LI - Diana and Eliza
Chapter LII - The Bed of Sickness
Chapter LIII - Accusations and Explanations
Chapter LIV - The Banker
Chapter LV - Miserimma!!!
Chapter LVI - The Road to Ruin
Chapter LVII - The Last Resource
Chapter LVIII - New Year's Day
Chapter LIX - The Royal Lovers
Chapter LX - Revelations
Chapter LXI - The "Boozing Ken" Once More
Chapter LXII - The Resurrection Man's History
Chapter LXIII - The Plot
Chapter LXIV - The Counterplot
Chapter LXV - The Wrongs and Crimes of the Poor
Chapter LXVI - The Result of Markham's Enterprise
Chapter LXVII - Scenes in Fashionable Life
Chapter LXVIII - The Election
Chapter LXIX - The "Whippers-In."
Chapter LXX - The Image, The Picture, and The Statue
Chapter LXXI - The House of Commons
Chapter LXXII - The Black Chamber Again
Chapter LXXIII - Captain Dapper and Sir Cherry Bounce
Chapter LXXIV - The Meeting
Chapter LXXV - The Crisis
Chapter LXXVI - Count Alteroni's Fifteen Thousand Pounds
Chapter LXXVII - A Woman's Secret
Chapter LXXVIII - Marian
Chapter LXXIX - The Bill. - A Father.
Chapter LXXX - The Revelation
Chapter LXXXI - The Mysterious Instructions
Chapter LXXXII - The Medical Man
Chapter LXXXIII - The Black Chamber Again
Chapter LXXXIV - The Second Examination - Count Alteroni.
Chapter LXXXV - A Friend in Need
Chapter LXXXVI - The Old Hag
Chapter LXXXVII - The Professor of Mesmerism
Chapter LXXXVIII - The Figurante
Chapter LXXXIX - The Mysterious Letter
Chapter XC - Markham's Occupations
Chapter XCI - The Tragedy
Chapter XCII - The Italian Valet
Chapter XCIII - News from Castelcicala
Chapter XCIV - The Home Office
Chapter XCV - The Forger and the Adulteress
Chapter XCVI - The Member of Parliament's Levee
Chapter XCVII - Another New Year's Day
Chapter XCVIII - Dark Plots and Schemes
Chapter XCIX - The Buffer's History
Chapter C - The Mysteries of the Ground-Floor Rooms
Chapter CI - The Widow
Chapter CII - The Reverend Visitor
Chapter CIII - Hopes and Fears
Chapter CIV - Female Courage
Chapter CV - The Combat
Chapter CVI - The Grave-Digger
Chapter CVII - A Discovery
Chapter CVIII - The Exhumation
Chapter CIX - The Stock-Broker
Chapter CX - The Effects of a Trance
Chapter CXI - A Scene at Mr. Chichester's House
Chapter CXII - Viola
Chapter CXIII - The Lovers
Chapter CXIV - The Contents of the Packet
Chapter CXV - The Treasure. - A New Idea
Chapter CXVI - The Rattlesnake's History
Chapter CXVII - The Rattlesnake
Chapter CXVIII - The Two Maidens
Chapter CXIX - Poor Ellen!
Chapter CXX - The Father and Daughter
Chapter CXXI - His Child!
Chapter CXXII - A Change of Fortune
Chapter CXXIII - Aristocratic Morals
Chapter CXXIV - The Intrigues of a Demirep
Chapter CXXV - The Reconciliation
Chapter CXXVI - The Rector of Saint David's
Chapter CXXVII - Blandishments
Chapter CXXVIII - Temptation
Chapter CXXIX - The Fall
Friday, 7 December 2007
Sweeney Todd
SWEENEY TODDI've recently seen a preview of Tim Burton's new version of Sweeney Todd, the Sondheim musical. Great performances all round ... not as over-the-top as I feared.
Anyway, the reason for an invitation to the preview (apart all my showbiz connections, of course - as if!) is that I'm writing a piece on the historicity of Todd (once assumed to have been based on a real event, now widely believed to be entirely fictional).
The story has had many manifestations, but it seems without doubt that the first version is the 1846/47 penny dreadful entitled 'The String of Pearls', in which the murderous barber is the chief villian.
In the spirit of web generosity on which http://www.victorianlondon.org/ is run, I've uploaded the entire penny dreadful here ... enjoy!
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