The Newgate novels were novels published in England from the late 1820s until the 1840s that glamorised the lives of the criminals they portrayed. Most drew their inspiration from the Newgate Calendar, a biography of notorious criminals published in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and usually rearranged or embellished the original tale for melodramatic effect. The novels caused great controversy, and drew criticism in particular from the novelist William Makepeace Thackeray, who satirised them in several of his own novels and attacked the authors openly.
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The Newgate novels (or Old Bailey novels) were novels published in England from the late 1820s until the 1840s that glamorised the lives of the criminals they portrayed.
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novels published in England from the late 1820s until the 1840s
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novels published in England from the late 1820s until the 1840s that glamorised the lives of the criminals they portrayed
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