The Fleet: Its Rivers, Prison, and Marriages (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Buried Waterways, Debtors' Prisons, and Clandestine Weddings in Historic LondonBy John Ashton
Length9h 35m
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John Ashton's The Fleet: Its Rivers, Prison, and Marriages is a richly documentary exploration of one of London's most suggestive districts, tracing the buried Fleet River, the notorious Fleet Prison, and the scandalous trade in clandestine marriages associated with its precincts. Written in a brisk antiquarian style, the book combines archival quotation, anecdote, legal history, and topographical observation, situating local curiosities within the broader social history of early modern and eighteenth-century London. Ashton was a prolific Victorian antiquary and social historian, deeply interested in the manners, entertainments, crimes, and printed ephemera of earlier centuries. His fascination with the neglected byways of London's past is evident throughout the volume: he writes not as a detached theorist, but as a collector of traces, reconstructing vanished institutions from records, pamphlets, court materials, and urban memory. The Fleet's convergence of geography, punishment, and irregular domestic life perfectly suited his historical imagination. This book is recommended to readers of London history, legal culture, urban studies, and social antiquarianism. It offers a vivid account of how place, vice, necessity, and law intertwined in the making of metropolitan legend.
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Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length9 hrs 35 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 1, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
19CHAPTER XVII.
2PREFACE.
20CHAPTER XVIII.
3CHAPTER I.
21The Fleet Prison.
4CHAPTER II.
22CHAPTER XIX.
5CHAPTER III.
23CHAPTER XX.
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6CHAPTER IV.
24CHAPTER XXI.
7CHAPTER V.
25CHAPTER XXII.
8CHAPTER VI.
26CHAPTER XXIII.
9CHAPTER VII.
27CHAPTER XXIV.
10CHAPTER VIII.
28CHAPTER XXV.
11CHAPTER IX.
29Fleet Marriages.
12CHAPTER X.
30CHAPTER XXVI.
13CHAPTER XI.
31CHAPTER XXVII.
14CHAPTER XII.
32CHAPTER XXVIII.
15CHAPTER XIII.
33CHAPTER XXIX.
16CHAPTER XIV.
34CHAPTER XXX.
17CHAPTER XV.
35INDEX.
18CHAPTER XVI.
36Memorable Quotes
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