Ada, the Betrayed; Or, The Murder at the Old Smithy. A Romance of Passion

Ada, the Betrayed; Or, The Murder at the Old Smithy. A Romance of Passion
Author: James Malcolm Rymer
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 725
Release: 2019-12-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

'Ada, the Betrayed; Or, The Murder at the Old Smithy. A Romance of Passion' by James Malcolm Rymer is a novel set in England in the year 1795. The story opens with a devastating storm that ravages a village, causing chaos and destruction. Amidst the chaos, a woman named Mad Maud predicts a terrible fate for the Old Smithy and its owner, Andrew Britton. Soon after, a fire breaks out in the building, and a horrifying discovery is made—a murder has taken place. As the villagers investigate the crime, they uncover a web of deceit and betrayal that threatens to tear them apart.

Ada, the Betrayed

Ada, the Betrayed
Author: John Malcom Rymer
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 738
Release: 2018-05-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3732673790

Reproduction of the original: Ada, the Betrayed by John Malcom Rymer

The String of Pearls

The String of Pearls
Author: James Malcolm Rymer
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2023-11-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Sweeney Todd is a barber who murders his customers and turns their remains into meat pies sold at the pie shop of Mrs. Lovett, his partner in crime. His barber shop is situated in Fleet Street, London, next to St. Dunstan's church, and is connected to Lovett's pie shop in nearby Bell Yard by means of an underground passage. Todd dispatches his victims by pulling a lever while they are in his barber chair, which makes them fall backward down a revolving trapdoor and generally causes them to break their necks or skulls on the cellar floor below. If the victims are still alive, he goes to the basement and "polishes them off" by slitting their throats with his straight razor.

James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family

James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family
Author: Rebecca Nesvet
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2024-07-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 104009371X

James Malcolm Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family is the first monograph focusing on Sweeney Todd and Varney the Vampyre’s creator James Malcolm Rymer (1814–1884). It argues that Rymer wrote his so-called ‘penny bloods’ and ‘dreadfuls’ for and about British urban working families. In the 1840s, the notion of the family acquired unprecedented prominence and radical potential. Raised in an artisanal artistic-literary family, Rymer wrote for and edited family magazines early in that genre’s history, deployed Chartist domesticity to liberal ends, and collaborated with cheap publisher Edward Lloyd to define and popularise the domestic romance genre. In 1850s–1860s penny serials published by George W.M. Reynolds, John Dicks, and Lloyd, Rymer showed how families might sustain Empire and advocated for patriarchal family dynamics in response to literary and political change. During the fin-de-siècle, Rymer’s penny fiction was demonised as hyper-masculine ‘bloods’ and ‘dreadfuls’, a reputation it retains today. Reading Victorian penny fiction’s most indicative author’s works as a corpus and with attention to their original textual, cultural, and political contexts reveals it as the family-oriented phenomenon it in fact was.

Penny Dreadfuls and the Gothic

Penny Dreadfuls and the Gothic
Author: Nicole C. Dittmer
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2023-02-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1786839725

• Penny Dreadfuls and the Gothic uncovers neglected Gothic texts of the nineteenth century which are crucial in understanding working-class popular culture. • The approach of this study of penny dreadfuls is vast and eclectic, ranging from data-driven publication data to close textual analysis of these texts to adaptations of penny fiction. • This title covers a broad range of penny texts, some of which have never before been written on.

General Catalogue of Printed Books

General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
Total Pages: 568
Release: 1959
Genre: English literature
ISBN: