The Meaning of Night by Michael Cox

Author:Michael Cox [Cox, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 978-1-55199-385-0
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2006-06-10T16:00:00+00:00

*[‘On the threshold’. Ed.]

*[The bells of the church opposite Newgate Prison, which tolled to announce impending executions. Ed.]

†[Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin (1805–71), a former watchmaker from Blois who became one of the greatest stage magicians of the nineteenth century. Ed.]

‡[William Calcraft (1800–79), the most prolific of all English executioners, who carried out over four hundred hangings between 1829 and 1874. Ed.]

§ [Slang term for hangman. Ed.]

*[The Temple was finally demolished in 1919, by which time it was virtually a ruin. Ed.]

*[A friction match. Ed.]

*[A hired hand. Ed.]

*[Audrey was the country wench wooed by Touchstone in Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Ed.]

*[On 28 June 1838. Ed.]

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