Apedia

Catherine Thackeray Criminal Deliberately Sordid Tale Life Based

Front Catherine
Back novel
Thackeray
1840
it's a deliberately sordid tale of criminal life, based on the career of Catherine Hayes, executed in 1726 for the murder of her husband
Thackeray wrote it in reaction against the sentimental views of criminal offered by the Newgate fiction popular in the 1930s

Learn with these flashcards. Click next, previous, or up to navigate to more flashcards for this subject.

Next card: Play cathleen ni yeats fight forever houlihan title

Previous card: Catharsis purging cleaning release emotion caused audience fate

Up to card list: Wordsworth companion to literature by Bahman Moradi