Crime, justice, and Defoe : law enforcement reported and imagined in eighteenth-century England /

Having filched a little white bundle from under the noses of an apothecary’s apprentice and his maid in London’s Leadenhall Street, Defoe’s Moll Flanders is sure that she will be "taken next time and be carry’d to Newgate and be Try’d for my Life." The likelihood of being arrested, tried a...

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