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Camden Pelham

A 19th-century barrister with a taste for dramatic history, he is best known for gathering notorious British criminal cases into vivid, cautionary narratives. His work offers a window into how crime, punishment, and public curiosity were written about in Victorian Britain.

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The Chronicles of Crime or The New Newgate Calendar. v. 2/2 being a series of memoirs and anecdotes of notorious characters who have outraged the laws of Great Britain from the earliest period to 1841

The Chronicles of Crime or The New Newgate Calendar. v. 2/2 being a series of memoirs and anecdotes of notorious characters who have outraged the laws of Great Britain from the earliest period to 1841

by Camden Pelham

The Chronicles of Crime or The New Newgate Calendar. v. 1/2 being a series of memoirs and anecdotes of notorious characters who have outraged the laws of Great Britain from the earliest period to 1841.

The Chronicles of Crime or The New Newgate Calendar. v. 1/2 being a series of memoirs and anecdotes of notorious characters who have outraged the laws of Great Britain from the earliest period to 1841.

by Camden Pelham

About the author

Camden Pelham was a nineteenth-century English writer remembered chiefly for The Chronicles of Crime; or, The New Newgate Calendar. He is described in library and public-domain catalogues as a barrister-at-law of the Inner Temple, and his surviving reputation rests on his skill as a compiler of sensational historical crime stories.

His best-known work brings together accounts of notorious offenders and famous cases from Great Britain, presenting them in a lively, moralizing style that would have appealed to Victorian readers. Rather than writing fiction, he organized older criminal histories and anecdotes into a broad survey of violence, fraud, piracy, and other crimes, making the book part reference work and part gripping popular history.

Very little biographical detail seems to be widely confirmed today, which is often the case with lesser-known nineteenth-century compilers. Even so, his books continue to circulate through projects like Project Gutenberg and LibriVox, where modern readers can still discover the dark, dramatic world he set out to chronicle.