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2. BARRIER: MATTHEW FLINDERS’S DILEMMA

3. CAGE: ELIZA FRASER’S HACK WRITER

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. Michael Alexander, who mentions James Curtis in passing, assumes that he is the same man as John Curtis, but cites no evidence,
Mrs. Fraser on the Fatal Shore,
p. 115. However, Stephen D. Behrendt’s major Liverpool database of the period shows how commonly individuals switched freely between calling themselves James and John. See S. D. Behrendt et al., “Designing a Multi-Source Relational Database: ‘Liverpool as Trading Port, 1700–1850,’”
International Journal of Maritime History,
vol. 24, no. 1 (June 2012), pp. 265–300. See also the description of James Curtis, in J. Grant,
The Great Metropolis
, 2 vols., London, Saunders and Otley, 1837, vol. 2, pp. 199–212; P. Collins, “The Molecatcher’s Daughter,”
The Independent
, November 26, 2006; L. James,
Print and the People, 1819–1851
, London, Viking, 1976, pp. 250–51; on Maria Marten, often also known as “The Red Barn Murder,” see, R. D. Altick,
Victorian Studies in Scarlet
, New York and London, Norton, 1970, pp. 28–30, 93–96.

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