Richmond, or, Scenes in the Life of a Bow Street Officer is an 1827 crime novel published anonymously and often attributed to Thomas Skinner Surr. The journalist Thomas Gaspey has also been credited as the author.[1][2] It was originally published in three volumes by Henry Colburn of New Burlington Street. It blended a depiction of the crime world of the Regency era with the fashionable silver fork novel, also functioning as an adventure novel.[3] The protagonist Tom Richmond, a picaresque figure, joins the Bow Street Runners after a misspent youth. It forms a bridge been early eighteenth century crime novels such as Moll Flanders and Colonel Jack with the future development of the full detective novel.[4]
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| Author | Thomas Skinner Surr (or Thomas Gaspey) |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Crime |
| Publisher | Henry Colburn |
Publication date | 1827 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
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It was published shortly before the creation of the Metropolitan Police by Robert Peel. It was part of the group of Newgate novels that lasted into the early Victorian era.[5]
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edit- Garside, Peter & O'Brien, Karen Elisabeth . English and British Fiction, 1750-1820. Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Kucich, John & Taylor, Jenny Bourne (ed.) The Oxford History of the Novel in English: Volume 3: The Nineteenth-Century Novel 1820-1880. OUP Oxford, 2012.
- Moon, Jina. Domestic Violence in Victorian and Edwardian Fiction. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
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