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La pie voleuse : the narrative of the magpie : or the maid of Palaiseau : being the history of the maid and the magpie : founded upon the circumstance of an unfortunate female having been unjustly sentenced to death, on strong presumtive evidence : with a preface and curious anecdotes

Author
Hone, William, 1780-1842
Additional Titles
Narrative of the magpie, Maid and the magpie, and Maid of Palaiseau
Published
[London, England] : [Printed by J. Swan for William Hone], [1815]
[Getzville, New York] : William S. Hein & Co., [2013]
Physical Description
1 online resource (18 pages).
Additional Creators
Fenning, Elizabeth, 1793-1815, Caigniez, M. (Louis-Charles), 1762-1842, and Pocock, I. (Isaac), 1782-1835
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Hone's prose version of a popular drama produced in London and intended to recall the recent trial and execution of Elizabeth Fenning due to circumstantial evidence.
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Note
Narrative version of a drama.
Hone pirated Isaac Pocock's The maid and the magpie : a drama in three acts [in turn adapted from Caigniez' La pie voleuse]. Cf. A. Bowden, William Hone's political journalism, 1815-1821, pages 34-35 for discussion of Hone's piracy.
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