Victorian prison lives : English prison biography, 1830-1914 / [edited by] Philip Priestley.

Imagining the penitentiary : fiction and the architecture of mind in eighteenth-century England / John Bender.

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Victorian prison lives : English prison biography, 1830-1914 / [edited by] Philip Priestley.

Imagining the penitentiary : fiction and the architecture of mind in eighteenth-century England / John Bender.