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Jack Sheppard

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Jack Sheppard 1702–24, English criminal. Raised in a workhouse, he ran away with Bess Lyon, known as Edgeworth Bess, who, with another girl known as Poll Maggott, incited him to a short but spectacular career as a thief and robber. He achieved his greatest fame for his many and astonishing escapes from custody, climaxed by an amazing escape (1724) from Newgate Prison. He was soon apprehended and hanged at Tyburn. His exploits became the subject of numerous narratives and plays, one or two attributed to Daniel Defoe, and he is the hero of W. H. Ainworth's novel Jack Sheppard (1839).

Bibliography: See C. Hibbert, The Road to Tyburn (1957).

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Sheppard, John, ‘Jack Sheppard’

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Sheppard, John, ‘Jack Sheppard’ (1702–24), a notorious thief and highwayman, who, after repeated escapes from prison, was hanged at Tyburn. He was the subject of tracts by Defoe, of many plays and ballads, and of a novel by W. H. Ainsworth. See Newgate Calendar.

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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Sheppard, John, ‘Jack Sheppard’." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-SheppardJohnJackSheppard.html

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