![]() ![]() The first stage adaptation of The String of Pearls, by George Dibdin Pitt, opened in 1847, before the serial had finished its run. The tale of Todd immediately captivated the London public. Lovett made their first appearance in 1846 in The String of Pearls, A Romance, a novel serialized in the populist publisher Edward Lloyd’s People’s Periodical and Family Libraryand now conclusively attributed to James Malcolm Rymer (1814-84). Todd and his resourceful pie-maker accomplice Mrs. ![]() So has Sweeney Todd, the fictional London barber who in Stephen Sondheim’s 1979 contribution to the mythos, “ shaved the faces of gentlemen / Who never thereafter were heard from again.” ![]() Frankenstein’s Creature, Edward Hyde, and Count Dracula have captivated generations of readers. Attend the Tale: Sweeney Todd and The String of PearlsĪ number of nineteenth-century literary monsters haunt the contemporary imagination. ![]()
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