I decided to take the Prison Voices Module as I was intrigued about being able to express my work in…
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Religious Reformation
After researching further into the idea of prison memoirs, I discovered that many prisoners converted their criminal lifestyles for a…
Affinity- A Similarity of Characteristics.
Following on from my previous blog post on Prison Memoirs, my focus today is on Sarah Waters’ novel, Affinity (1999) And the ‘similarity…
Prison Memoirs.
“Prisoner accounts played a significant role in contesting the legitimacy of the “hard bed, hard fare, hard labour” regimes legislated…
Oliver Twist- The System VS Fagin.
The likeliness between the juvenile delinquents and real life artful dodgers of Liverpool in my previous blog post issues no…
The Artful Dodgers of Liverpool.
Juvenile Delinquency was an increasing problem during the 19th century, and a huge part of this influence was due to…
Remember Me: Alexander’s Love Token.
Between 1615-1945 the British Penal Settlements were put into place in order to rehabilitate and reside criminals from England, sending…
Defoe and his Picaro: Moll Flanders (1722)
Daniel Defoe explores the courageous and outrageous picaresque character that is Moll Flanders. She is constantly shocking the reader, and…
‘Allured to Crime by the “Penny Dreadful”’, War Cry, 1 Dec 1900.
The image ‘Allured to Crime by the “Penny Dreadful”‘ insinuates the idea of young adolescent men are encouraged to commit…
Prison Voices: Uncovered 