London as Siren in EighteenthCentury British Print Culture

1
London as Siren in Eighteenth-Century British
Print Culture

• Miriam Jones
• University of New Brunswick, Saint John
• jones_at_unbsj.ca

2
Pepys Library, Magdalene College.http//www.mag
d.cam.ac.uk/pepys/collection.html
3
The Essex man coozened by a Whore. No place H.
Gosson, 1631. (Pepys 1.290-291).
http//emc.english.ucsb.edu/ballad_project/.
4
Country John and The Countrymans Ramble in
Cheapside. London J. Pitts, no date. (Bodleian
Harding B17 64A).http//www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ball
ads/ballads.htm.
5
The Rambling Sailor, and Phoebe, Or the beauty
of Dundee. London J. Pitts, c.1819-1844.
(Bodleian Johnson Ballads, 966).http//www.bodl
ey.ox.ac.uk/ballads/ballads.htm.
6
The Story of Sinful Sally. London J. Marshall,
no date. (Houghton Library Uncatalogued
Broadsides).
7
The Story of Sinful Sally. London J. Marshall,
no date. (Houghton Library Uncatalogued
Broadsides.) detail.
8
The Story of Sinful Sally. London J. Marshall,
no date. (Houghton Library Uncatalogued
Broadsides.) detail.
9
The Story of Sinful Sally. London J. Marshall,
no date. (Houghton Library Uncatalogued
Broadsides.) detail.
10
The Story of Sinful Sally. London J. Marshall,
no date. (Houghton Library Uncatalogued
Broadsides.) detail.
11
Dear Kitty Gray. No place no imprint, no date.
(Bodleian Harding B20 35).http//www.bodley.ox.
ac.uk/ballads/ballads.htm.
12
When the Kye Come Hame and The Black Silk
Umbrella. Preston J. Harkness, c.1840.
(Bodleian Harding B114129).http//www.bodley.
ox.ac.uk/ballads/ballads.htm.
13
Jolly Jack of All Trades. No place J. Conyers,
no date.( Pepys 4.263). http//emc.english.ucsb.e
du/ballad_project/.
14
Jolly Jack of All Trades. No place J. Conyers,
no date.( Pepys 4.263). http//emc.english.ucsb.e
du/ballad_project/ detail.
15
The City Rambler or, The Merry Cries of London
Town. No place P. Brooksby, J. Deacon, J.
Blare, J. Back, no date. (Pepys 4.334).
http//emc.english.ucsb.edu/ballad_project/.
16
"The Cries of London." London J. Catnach,
c.18131838. Bodleian Library, Johnson Ballads
178. http//www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads/ballads.
htm.
17
"A new Ballad intituled, I haue freh Cheee and
Creame." London W.W., c.1610.(Pepys
1.340).http//emc.english.ucsb.edu/ballad_projec
t/.
18
"The Pedler opening of his Packe,/ To know of
Maydes what tis they lacke." London E.A.,
c.1620. (Pepys 1.238-239). http//emc.english.ucs
b.edu/ballad_project/.
19
Buy my Dutch Biskets (c.1711).Printed by
Henry Overton, who republished Laroons The Cryes
of London in 1711, 1713, 1731 or 1733 (the
printed dates on all the extant versions are
unclear).Bodleian Library.http//www.bodley.ox
.ac.uk/johnson/exhibition/.
20
Strawberries by Francis Wheatly,
c.1792.http//homepages.ihug.co.nz/awoodley/cri
es/strawberry.html.
21
The Cries of London.London O. Hodgson,
c.1835. http//collections.ic.gc.ca/osborne/crie
s/Hfrontcover.html.