Jane Austen’s Aunt Behind Bars

Writers and their Criminal Relatives and Associates, 1700–1900

Nonfiction, History, British
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Author: Stephen Wade ISBN: 9780857282149
Publisher: Anthem Press Publication: June 15, 2013
Imprint: Union Bridge Books Language: English
Author: Stephen Wade
ISBN: 9780857282149
Publisher: Anthem Press
Publication: June 15, 2013
Imprint: Union Bridge Books
Language: English

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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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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