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Victorian prison lives : English prison biography, 1830-1914

Title
Victorian prison lives : English prison biography, 1830-1914 / Philip Priestley.
Author
Priestley, Philip.
Publication
London ; New York : Methuen, 1985.

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Description
xii, 311 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
The first account of the process of imprisonment in England between 1830 and 1914 drawn largely from the writings of prisoners themselves.
Subject
  • 1800-1899
  • Geschichte 1830-1914
  • Prisoners > Great Britain > Biography
  • Prisons > Great Britain > History > 19th century
  • Prisons in literature
  • Prisoners
  • Prisons > history
  • Prisoners
  • Prisons
  • Gefängnis
  • Gevangenissen
  • Prisons > Great Britain > History
  • Prisoners > Great Britain > History
  • Great Britain
  • England > History > 19th century
  • England > Correctional institutions > Biography
  • Großbritannien
Genre/Form
  • Biographies.
  • History.
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. [296]-304.
Contents
Into prison -- The cell -- Prisoners -- The daily round -- Chapel -- Hard labour -- The dietary -- Sick... -- Discipline -- The scaffold -- Warders and governors -- Release -- Appendix I. Abstract of the regulations relating to the conduct of convicted criminal prisoners -- Appendix II. English penal history : a select calendar.
ISBN
  • 0416347703
  • 9780416347708
  • 0416347800
  • 9780416347807
LCCN
85011518
OCLC
  • ocm12106193
  • 12106193
  • SCSB-9555422
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library