Dick Turpin
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Richard Turpin was an English highwayman whose exploits were romanticised following his execution in York for horse theft. Turpin may have followed his father's trade as a butcher early in his life bu
Turpin imagined in William Harrison Ainsworth's novel Rookwood
21 September 1705 entry of Turpin's name in the parish baptism register for Hempstead, Essex (fifth line down).
A 19th-century illustration of the raid at Loughton, as seen in the Newgate Calendar
Epping Forest was a regular haunt of the Essex Gang.
Penny dreadful
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Penny dreadfuls were cheap popular serial literature produced during the 19th century in the United Kingdom. The pejorative term is roughly interchangeable with penny horrible, penny awful, and penny
Dick Turpin
…a day) is impossible. Nevertheless, Ainsworth's legend of Black Bess was repeated in works such as Black Bess or the Knight of the Road, a 254-part penny dreadful published in 1867–68. In these tales, Turpin was the hero, accompanied by his trusty colleagues Claude Duval, Tom King, and Jack Rann. These narratives…
Cover of a Varney the Vampire publication (1845)
Illustrated Chips comic magazine in 1896. Published by Alfred Harmsworth, it cost just a half-penny.
Spring-heeled Jack illustrated on the cover of the 1904 penny dreadful serial Spring-heeled Jack