The Mysteries of a London Convent [transcript]

Description

Published inThe London Miscellanyand written by William Heard Hillyard (1811-1870), this 22 chapter story must have been considered a guaranteed blockbuster with the newspaper’s intended reading audience.The Mysteries of a London Conventrelies most immediately on the sensational categories that we saw delineated inThe Mysteries of the Inquisition, as well as another and earlier penny dreadful production with an almost identical plot, Smiff’sThe New Mysteries of London(1858), written in imitation of Reynolds’s blockbusterThe Mysteries of London(1844-48).