Book penny dreadful

The String of Pearls

by James Malcolm Rymer · first published 1846

The String of Pearls: A Domestic Romance (alternatively titled The Sailor's Gift) is a story first published as a penny dreadful serial from 1846 to 1847. The main character of the story is Sweeney Todd, "the Demon Barber of Fleet Street". The story was the character's first literary appearance. Todd is a barber who murders his customers and gives their corpses to Mrs.

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