Block:English Baseball in London in 1894
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| Data | A “base-ball” court in an 18th century London debtors' prison received mention in a novel by Henrietta Kiddie, a well-known and prolific 19th century Scottish writer. In the story, the eponymous wellborn heroine visits her debtor husband in one of the dank prisons of Southwark, in London. The story continues: “She knew every grimly solid piece of furniture in the receiving room; which was at least spacious enough for the various incongruous groups that were wont to be congregated there; she could have made her progress unguided, as she went—the tall, nodding feathers in her beaver hat adding to her height, her train drawn through her pocket-hole—smilingly picking her way in her high heeled shoes past the base-ball court and the skittle ground, acknowledging the humble salutations made to her with the unwearying affability of one born to state and condescension.” |
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| Sources | Lady Jean's Vagaries, anon. (Henrietta Keddie), London, 1894, Richard Bentley and Son, p. 142 |
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