Deacon Brodie: Father to Jekyll and HydeThe Saltire Society, 1993 - 158 páginas Deacon Brodie, pillar of the Establishment turned arch-criminal, terrified late-18th-century Edinburgh. This book tells of the two Edinburghs - the respectable lawyers' capital and the lurid underworld of thieves and whores - in which Brodie led his dual existence, culminating in the armed theft of Scotland's revenues and Brodie's escape to Holland, whence he was brought back to be tried and executed. This extraordinary tale gave rise to the idea of Jekyll and Hyde in the fertile imagination of Robert Louis Stevenson almost a century later. |
Términos y frases comunes
Advocate Aeneas Morison ah'm Ainslie Beggar's Opera Bench break-in Brodie gang Brodie's Close Brown burgh Canongate Chessel's Court City Guard Cockburn conviction Court of Justiciary Cowgate crime criminal Crown Deacon Brodie Dean of Faculty defence door English Eskgrove evidence Excise Office fellow friends GEDDES gentlemen George Smith George's Square Glenlee hand Harry Erskine Henry Cockburn Henry Dundas High Street Hyde Ilay Campbell indictment James Jekyll John Clerk judges jury King's ladies Leith letters Libberton's Wynd London Lord Braxfield LORD JUSTICE CLERK Lord-Advocate Lordships Mackenzie Magistrates Mistress morning night o'clock objection old Edinburgh old town pannell pardon Parliament Close Parliament House past Perhaps play Princes Street prisoners Robert Louis Robert Louis Stevenson Royal Scotland Scots Scottish sentence Sheriff Sir Laurence St Giles Stonefield tavern Tolbooth Town Council trial Tron Kirk verdict William Brodie William Creech witness Wrights young
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