The Queen and government
- “The Queen was the husband, and the Prince the wife” — Reynolds makes Queen Victoria a character in his novel
- “Behold the effects of its infamous Poor-Laws;—contemplate the results of the more atrocious Game-Laws;—mark the consequences of the Corn-Laws.”
- The Black Chamber of the Post Office and spying on citizens
Crime and punishment
- Reynolds’s Opposition to Capital Punishment
- Reynolds’s Opposition to Imprisonment for Debt
- “Obscene jokes and filthy expressions. . . [at] the very foot of the gallows” — Reynolds on the corrupting effect of public executions
- “That rotatory engine of diabolical torture” – The Tread-Wheel in Coldbath Field’s Prison
- Henry Holford attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria
Social history
- Reynolds’ London — unbounded wealth and appalling misery
- “The Rattlesnake’s Story,” or child labor in a coal mine
- That “splendid Chapel of Ease . . . not a hundred miles from Russell or Tavistock Square” — class discrimination even in church
- G.W.M. Reynolds and Fiction about Crime in India
Last modified 28 September 2021