Dick Turpin
Peter Norman Jackson • 1988 • Hyperion Books
- Author
- Peter Norman Jackson
- First published
- 1988
- Publisher
- Hyperion Books
- Genres
- Biography · Fiction
- ISBN
- 9780722322598
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Published in 1988 by Hyperion Books, this volume represents Peter Norman Jackson's historical exploration of the life and legend of Dick Turpin, the notorious 18th-century English highwayman. The book emerges from a long tradition of British popular history writing that seeks to disentangle the romanticized folk-hero mythos surrounding Turpin from the documented criminal reality of his life and eventual execution at York in 1739.
Jackson’s work is characterized by a straightforward, narrative approach to historical biography, focusing on the social conditions of Georgian England that enabled highway robbery to become a prevalent concern of the era. The design and presentation reflect the conventions of late 1980s independent historical publishing, prioritizing accessible, factual storytelling over academic abstraction to engage a general readership interested in regional folklore and criminal history.
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