Victorian Prison Lives: English Prison Biography, 1830-1914

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.

Customer Reviews

Glimpse behing bars

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.