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Women prisoners

Images

  • Woking Convict Invalid Prison: five women prisoners convicted of infanticide. Process print after Paul Renouard, 1889.
  • Cornelia, the Vestal Virgin, entombed alive surrounded by bones in the dungeon. Line engraving by G. Mochetti after B. Pinelli.
  • China: a woman sentenced to execution by strangulation for murdering her husband. Photograph, 19--.
  • Elizabeth Fry is seated at a table in Newgate Prison, London, surrounded by women prisoners listening to her. Etching and aquatint.
  • Woking Convict Invalid Prison: women prisoners working the fire pump. Process print after Paul Renouard, 1889.
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Catalogue

    • Pictures

    China: a woman sentenced to execution by strangulation for murdering her husband, being attached to the execution post. Photograph, 19--.

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1999] | Reference: 663451i
    Part of: China: execution by strangulation of a woman convicted of murdering her husband
    • Books

    Bitch Planet. Book one, Extraordinary machine / Kelly Sue DeConnick, script/co-creator ; Valentine De Landro, art & covers/co-creator ; Robert Wilson IV, art (issue #3) ; Cris Peter, colours ; Clayton Cowles, letters.

    DeConnick, Kelly Sue | Date: [2015]
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    Elizabeth Fry is seated at a table in Newgate Prison, London, surrounded by women prisoners listening to her. Etching and aquatint.

    | Reference: 37722i
    • Books

    Tenacious : art & writings by women in prison. Issue 31, Spring 2014.

    | Date: 2014
    • Books

    Insiders : women's experience of prison / Una Padel and Prue Stevenson.

    Padel, Una | Date: 1988
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