Daniel Defoe wrote a biography of Jonathan Wild a month after Wild was hanged in 1725.
Sources
- Digitizing the Hanging Court (smithsonianmag.com)
- https://timewisetraveller.co.uk/defoe.html (timewisetraveller.co.uk)
- https://reginajeffers.blog/2014/04/09/jonathan-wild-underworld-figure-during-the-reign-of-queen-anne/ (reginajeffers.blog)
- https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0950236X.2010.495527 (tandfonline.com)
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