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#OTD in 1840.
Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray independently attend the hanging outside Newgate Prison in London of the murderer François Benjamin Courvoisier, who blames the influence of W. Harrison Ainsworth's Newgate novel Jack Sheppard for his crime. Thackeray writes the experience up as "Going to See a Man Hanged" in this month's issue of Fraser's Magazine; Dickens in The Daily News in February 1846.
Jack Sheppard at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16215
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Charles Dickens and William Makepeace Thackeray independently attend the hanging outside Newgate Prison in London of the murderer François Benjamin Courvoisier, who blames the influence of W. Harrison Ainsworth's Newgate novel Jack Sheppard for his crime. Thackeray writes the experience up as "Going to See a Man Hanged" in this month's issue of Fraser's Magazine; Dickens in The Daily News in February 1846.
Jack Sheppard at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16215
#books #literature