| Description |
1 online resource (289 pages) |
| Contents |
Chapter I. Introducing to the reader the chief personages of this narrative -- Chapter II. In which are depicted the pleasures of a sentimental attachment -- Chapter III. In which a narcotic is administered, and a great deal of genteel society depicted -- Chapter IV. In which Mrs. Catherine becomes an honest woman again -- Chapter V. Contains Mr. Brock's autobiography, and other matters -- Chapter VI. Adventures of the Ambassador, Mr. Macshane -- Chapter VII. Which embraces a period of seven years -- Chapter VIII. Enumerates the accomplishments of Master Thomas Billings; introduces Brock as Doctor Wood; and announces the execution of Ensign Macshane -- Chapter IX. Interview between Count Galgenstein and Master Thomas Billings, when he informs the Count of his parentage -- Chapter X. Showing how Galgenstein and Mrs. Cat recognize each other in Marylebone Gardens; and how the Count drives her home in his carriage -- Chapter XI. Of some domestic quarrels, and the consequence thereof -- Chapter XII. Treats of love, and prepares for death -- Chapter XIII. Being a preparation for the end -- Chapter the last -- Another last chapter -- Endnotes |
| Summary |
Though he originally set out to depict criminals in as harshly accurate a light as possible, without the sentimentalization that he saw and disdained in Dickens' work, Thackeray's fictionalized account of the life of Catherine Hayes, an eighteenth-century woman who was burned at the stake for the murder of her husband, depicts the titular character in a somewhat more appealing and charming manner than the author intended. A must-read for fans of rollicking picaresque tales such as Moll Flanders |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Hayes, Catherine Hall, 1690-1726 -- Fiction
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| SUBJECT |
Hayes, Catherine Hall, 1690-1726 fast (OCoLC)fst00430051 |
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Executions and executioners -- Fiction
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Women murderers -- Fiction
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Biographical fiction.
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Biographical fiction.
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Executions and executioners.
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Women murderers.
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Great Britain -- History -- Anne, 1702-1714 -- Fiction
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Great Britain.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographical fiction.
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History
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Fiction.
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Biographical fiction.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781775419884 |
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1775419886 |
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9781776515080 |
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1776515080 |
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