The Colonial Dumping Ground
(Americans)…are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging. -Samuel Johnson, 1769 (Boswells Johnson, Vol. II, pg. 312; Penny Cyclopaedia, XXV.…
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For Who Does the Bell Toll
Scoundrel’s Alley Presents: The Scholarly Scoundrel on A Continuing Series of Thoughts Pertinent to Historical Scoundrels Everywhere. N.B. This article was written as a story. While the happenings described here…
Law and Order: The Original Series
Scoundrel’s Alley Presents: The Scholarly Scoundrel. A Continuing Series of Thoughts Pertinent to Historical Scoundrels Everywhere.‘Many cartloads of our fellow creatures are once in six weeks carried to slaughter’-Henry Fielding,…
Quack…er…Crack No More: a short treatise of ‘Crazy’ Sally Mapp
Scoundrel’s Alley Presents: Our Own ‘Crank Cuffin’, “Cranky” Katie with A Continuing Series of Thoughts Pertinent to Historical Scoundrels Everywhere. quack (noun) (Middle English) An untrained person who pretends to…
Life on the Wicked Stage: An Introduction to the Roaring Girl and the German Princess
Scoundrel’s Alley Presents: The Scholarly Scoundrel on A Continuing Series of Thoughts Pertinent to Historical Scoundrels Everywhere. What mighty ills have not been done by woman? Who was’t betrayed the…
Cant: Language of the Universal Travelers
Scoundrel’s Alley Presents: The Scholarly Scoundrel on A Continuing Series of Thoughts Pertinent to Historical Scoundrels Everywhere. For the Gypsies they and the Foul Disease have alike the Fate to…
An Opera for Beggars
Scoundrel’s Alley Presents: The Scholarly Scoundrel on A Continuing Series of Thoughts Pertinent to Historical Scoundrels Everywhere. To be Hanged by the Neck for the Sake of an Opera Written…