Victorian Prison Lives: English Prison Biography, 1830-1914

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Item: Victorian Prison Lives: English Prison Biography, 1830-1914
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by Philip Priestley

You would not have enjoyed spending time in a Victorian prison, as Philip Priestley's beautifully written and genuinely terrifying study demonstrates. Synthesizing a wide range of actual individual... This description may be from another edition of this product.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0416347703

ISBN13:9780416347708

Release Date:January 1985

Publisher:Methuen Publishing

Length:300 Pages

Weight:1.55 lbs.

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Biographies Criminology England Europe Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Movements & Periods Social Science Social Sciences Textbooks Victorian

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Priestly shows the workings of prisons in the nineteenth century through the letters, diaries, and memoirs of the people actually involved. While the facts are not revolutionary, he brings such a personal connection to the details that make them alive and memorable in ways that others do not.

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