Jane Austen's aunt behind bars : writers and their criminal relatives and associates, 1700-1900 /
The collected essays explore the lives of several writers in Georgian and Victorian Britain, in terms of their knowledge and experience of prison life. This book focuses on the lives of the writers themselves, or on the prison stretches endured by their relatives or acquaintances. Some of these writ...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Thames River Press,
2013.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The collected essays explore the lives of several writers in Georgian and Victorian Britain, in terms of their knowledge and experience of prison life. This book focuses on the lives of the writers themselves, or on the prison stretches endured by their relatives or acquaintances. Some of these writers were locked up for debt, while others were deprived of liberty for sedition or treason. Here the reader will find, amongst many other stories, accounts of Dickens's father in debtors' prison, of Leigh Hunt living with his whole family in The Surrey House of Correction and of Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780857282149 085728214X |