| Front | Catherine |
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| 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 |
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