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Cutpurse

Gideon the Cutpurse (Gideon)
Linda Buckley-Archer

Simon & Schuster Childrens Books, 2006

Con Men and Cutpurses: Scenes from the Hogarthian Underworld (Penguin Classics)

Penguin Classics, 2004

This is an enthralling anthology of 18th-century writings that gives a fascinating insight into the dreadful misdeeds of - and the horrible punishments meted out to - an array of rogues and criminals, from murderers and swindlers to prostitutes and pirates. Captured in memoirs, letters, ballads and court transcripts are some of the most colourful ...

Gideon the Cutpurse: Being the First Part of the Gideon Trilogy

Linda Buckley-Archer

Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 2006

Wonderful Read
Peter Schock's birthday treat has been canceled and instead he is forced to spend the day with strangers: Kate Dyer and her family to be exact. Wanting to show off her Dad's Van de Graaff generator, Kate persuades Peter to ride with them to the laboratory where Dr. ...

Moll Cutpurse, Her True History: A Novel

Ellen Galford

Firebrand Books, 1985

correction to previous review: the Roaring Girl!
Ellen Galford's novel is not a rewrite of Defoe's Moll Flanders! Dekker and Middleton's play "The Roaring Girl" was based on a actual London personage-- Moll Cutpurse, who also inspired the pamphlet debate "Hic Mulier/Haec Vir" by her cross dressing in men's clothes. ...

The roaring girl (New mermaids)
Thomas Middleton

W. W. Norton, 1976

New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume includes: ? The playtext, in modern spelling, edited to the highest bibliographical and textual standards ? Textual notes recording significant changes to the copytext and variant readings ? Glossing notes explaining obscure words and word-play ? ...

Carry On Corsets
Molly Cutpurse

Lulu Enterprises, UK Ltd, 2007

Set in the classic time of 1972, this story is about a battle between the ancient and respectable company of corset makers owned by Sir Cyril Strumpet The Third and his arch enemy, Sidney Rabbit who sets up his own company Aphrodisiac, a place of swinging, knicker-clad females.

Counterfeit Ladies: The Life and Death of Mary Frith the Case of Mary Carleton (N Y U Press Women's Classics)
Janet Todd, Elizabeth Spearing

NYU Press, 1995

Accused of transvestism and trickery, indicted for bigamy and hanged for robbery, Mary Carleton, the German Princess, was the most notorious female rogue of her time. Mary Frith, alias Mal Cutpurse, was a similarly spectacular transgressor: a resident of London's infamous Alsatia district, a criminal sanctuary between Fleet Street and the ...

A Life Lived
Molly Cutpurse

PublishAmerica, 2006

This is an imaginary tale, best described as counterfactual. It originated from a true story: the Thompson and Bywaters affair, which scandalized England in the 1920s. As one steps into Edith?s unchallenged life, one sees what might have been. Had Edith Thompson been allowed to live, her existence may have been authentic, emotionally moving and ...

Gideon the Cutpurse
Linda/ Doyle, Gerard (NRT) Buckley-archer

Simon & Schuster Childrens, 2006

The Roaring Girl or Moll Cutpurse
Mary Roberts Rinehart

Kessinger Publishing, 2004

MOLL [Aside] Oh, here's my gentleman: if they would keep their days as well with their mercers as their hours with their harlots, no bankrout would give seven score pound for a sergeant's place, for would you know a catchpole rightly deriv'd, the corruption of a citizen is the generation of a sergeant! How his eye hawks for venery!--Come, are you ...

Con Men and Cutpurses
Lucy Moore

Allen Lane, 2000

GIDEON THE CUTPURSE - The Past Has Never Been So Close

Linda Buckley-Archer

Simon & Schuster, 2006

IMPORTANT INFORMATION for AWESOME Series!
This series is INCREDIBLE! The author, characters, the plots, resolutions are intricate, detailed and fully developed. HOWEVER, BE AWARE that each book in the series has 2 published versions/titles. The first book is "Gideon the Cutpurse" (British version) and "The ...