Thomas Hood
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Thomas Hood was an English poet, author and humorist, best known for poems such as "The Bridge of Sighs" and "The Song of the Shirt". Hood wrote regularly for The London Magazine, Athenaeum, and Punch
Thomas Hood from NPG
Plaque in Cheapside, City of London, marking the site of the house where Thomas Hood was born
Thomas Hood's wife, Jane
Grave of Thomas Hood in Kensal Green Cemetery in west London, designed by Matthew Noble
Eugene Aram
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Eugene Aram was an English philologist, but also infamous as the murderer celebrated by Thomas Hood in his ballad The Dream of Eugene Aram, and by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in his 1832 novel Eugene Aram.
Thomas Hood
…betrothed to the bee; - But I will plight with the dainty rose, For fairest of all is she. In another annual called the Gem appeared the verse story of Eugene Aram. Hood started a magazine in his own name, mainly sustained by his own activity. He did the work from a sick-bed from which he never rose, and there…
Portrait of Eugene Aram, from The Newgate Calendar
Illustration of Aram's alleged murder of Daniel Clarke, from The Newgate Calendar