A Rake's Progress A Rake's Progress A Rake's Progress is a series of eight paintings by 18th-century English artist William Hogarth. The canvases were produced in 1732–34, then engraved in 1734 and published in print form in 1735. The series shows the decline and fall of Tom Rakewell, the spendthrift son and heir of a rich merchant, who comes to London, wastes all his money on luxurious living, prostitution and gambling, and as a consequence is imprisoned in the Fleet Prison and ultimately Bethlem Hospital (Bedlam). The original paintings are in the collection of Sir John Soane's Museum in London, where they are
William S. Penn of Best University Press Books of 2000. He has also received the American Book Award for Literary Merit and the Distinguished Faculty Award from Michigan State University. He was named a 2002 Wordcraft Circle Writer of the Year in Creative Prose: Fiction for "Feathering Custer". William S. Penn William S. Penn (born 1949) is a writer and English professor at Michigan State University. William S. Penn is an urban mixed-blood Nez Perce. Born and raised in the West, he has lived in many different regions of the United States, as well as in England. He was educated at the University