Comments on: John Fairburn’s Chapbooks

By: Helen Rogers

Helen Rogers — Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:09:42 +0000

Have loved dipping into Spitalfields Life this morning. Thanks Gentle Author! This is a wonderful post I’ll share with my students along with Voices from the Old Bailey on Mary Clifford – thanks for the tip Teresa Stokes http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?div=t17670909-1

By: Nom D

Nom D — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 17:47:52 +0000

It is heartening to see compassion shown to those without power and means.

By: Valerie Fairbrass

Valerie Fairbrass — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 15:50:11 +0000

Will definitely visit exhibition. For more on John Fairburn, especially his forays into bawdy, subversive and obscene publications see Iain McCalman’s ‘Radical Underworld : Prophets, Revolutionaries and Pornographers in London, 1795-1840’ (1988) . The government’s spy system kept close tabs on him.

By: Teresa Stokes

Teresa Stokes — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 11:57:22 +0000

The case of the little apprentice girl Mary Clifford who was tortured and killed by her employers the Brownrigg family was dramatised on BBC Radio 4 in July 2010 in their series “Voices from the Old Bailey” and I have never forgotten it. Transcripts of the Old Bailey trials are now online and give a revealing insight into life in those days. Here is the link for this one, I hope this works:
http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?div=t17670909-1

By: Libby Hall

Libby Hall — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 07:00:26 +0000

Marvellous to have these shared in this way. The little exhibition of the originals is indeed wonderful – but here you can see the illustrations clearly, and read the texts.

(I think my favourite of the toasts is ‘Love in a cottage and envy to none’)

By: Marina B

Marina B — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 05:21:42 +0000

Ah, magnificent!