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1. The Dickens Encyclopaedia

   Routledge Library Editions: Charles Dickens Volume 8

   By Arthur L. Hayward

   This is the standard reference guide to the works of Charles Dickens. The material is arranged alphabetically, in dictionary style, and provides a quick means of reference to the plots of the novels and to all the characters and places mentioned in the novels. There are also useful explanatory...

   Published December 13th 2010 by Routledge
2. The Days of Dickens: A Glance at Some Aspects of Early Victorian Life in London

   Routledge Library Editions: Charles Dickens Volume 7

   By Arthur L. Hayward

   These chapters deal with the life of London from the early 1830’s to the mid-1860’s. The book mainly focuses on the social life of the day, but also deals with the blacker side of London and travel and country life....

   Published December 5th 2010 by Routledge
3. A Complete History of the Lives and Robberies of the Most Notorious Highwaymen, Footpads, Shoplifts and Cheats of Both Sexes

   Previously published 1719 and 1926

   By Captain Alexander Smith

   Edited by Arthur L. Hayward

   A Complete History of the Highwaymen discloses the most secret and barbarous murders, unparalleled robberies, notorious thefts and unheard of cheats, setting them in a true light and exposing them to public view for the common benefit of mankind. The accounts and confessions are drawn from...

   Published June 19th 2002 by Routledge
4. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals - who have been condemned and executed for murder, the highway, housebreaking, street robberies, coining or other offences

   Previously published 1735 and 1927

   Edited by Arthur L. Hayward

   Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals was originally published in three volumes and sold by John Osborn on Paternoster Row. The volumes recount the lives, crimes and executions of eighteenth century lawbreakers. By '[setting] forth the entertainments of vice in their proper colours', the volumes...

   Published June 19th 2002 by Routledge
5. A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates - from their first rise and settlement in the Island of Providence to the present year

   Previously published 1726 and 1927

   By Captain Charles Johnson

   Edited by Arthur L. Hayward

   A General History of the Pirates has long been a classic of seafaring literature and was inspiration to both Robert Louis Stevenson and J.M. Barrie. Nothing is known about Captain Charles Johnson, and it is thought that the name may be assumed - there are even some who believe he may have been...

   Published June 19th 2002 by Routledge