William Strange
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"Strange and Vickers had been associated with cheap literature all their lives, the fathers of both young publishers were among the radical unstamped pressmen of the 1830's and were acquaintances and neighbours of Holywell Street pornographer William Dugdale, a Regency veteran. Strange Sr. had published an unstamped newspaper, Truth, and an obscene and Anti-Papist work, The Confessional Unmasked. Vickers Sr. was responsible for the racy James Lindridge romance, The Merry Wives of London a Romance of Metropolitan Life."[1] |
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William Strange was an English publisher. He published the Anti-Papist work The Confessional Unmasked.
- May 11, 1857. Times THE QUEEN V. WILLIAM STRANGE.
"This was another indictment similar to the last, and charged the
defendant, William Strange of No. 183, Fleet-street with the
publication of two obscene libels, the one called the Women of
London, and the other Paul Pry. It appeared that this defendant, who
was a very respectable looking young man, kept the shop in question,
where he sold newspapers and periodical papers generally. The
publications were sold by him openly on the 26th and 29th of January
and were taken by the defendant from a pile of about 20 more of the
same sort. It was also stated that they were sold at other shops in
London."[2]
