September 21, 2011

Featured find: The strange and hilariously Victorian (and long-winded) Curiosities of Street Literature: Comprising “cocks” or “catchpennies,” a large and curious assortment of street-drolleries, squibs, histories, comic tales in prose and verse, broadsides on the Royal Family, political litanies, dialogues, catechisms, acts of Parliament, street political papers, a variety of “ballads on the subject”, dying speeches and confessions by Charles Hindley (1871). [Here]

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