Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The Newgate Calendar, subtitled The Malefactors' Bloody Register, was a popular work of improving literature in the 18th and 19th centuries.Originally a monthly bulletin of executions, produced by the Keeper of Newgate Prison in London, the Calendar's title was appropriated by other publishers, who put out biographical chapbooks about notorious criminals such as Sawney Bean, Dick Turpin, John Wilkes and Moll Cutpurse.Collected editions of these stories began to appear in the mid-18th century, and in 1774 a five-volume bound edition became the standard version. "@en }
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- The_Newgate_Calendar comment "The Newgate Calendar, subtitled The Malefactors' Bloody Register, was a popular work of improving literature in the 18th and 19th centuries.Originally a monthly bulletin of executions, produced by the Keeper of Newgate Prison in London, the Calendar's title was appropriated by other publishers, who put out biographical chapbooks about notorious criminals such as Sawney Bean, Dick Turpin, John Wilkes and Moll Cutpurse.Collected editions of these stories began to appear in the mid-18th century, and in 1774 a five-volume bound edition became the standard version. ".