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: THE ¦t" ¦ ... . ENGLISH WOMAN'S JOURNA...
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Vol. X. September 1 9 1862. No. 55.
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L-PEMALE LIFE IN PRISON.
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» A remarkable book has lately been runn...
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: The ¦T" ¦ ... . English Woman's Journa...
: THE ¦ t" ¦ .. . . ENGLISH WOMAN'S JOURNAL .
PUBLISHED MONTHLY .
Vol. X. September 1 9 1862. No. 55.
Vol . X . September 1 9 1862 . No . 55 .
L-Pemale Life In Prison.
_L-PEMALE LIFE IN PRISON .
» A Remarkable Book Has Lately Been Runn...
» A remarkable book has lately been running the round of the public presswhich reads like a series of illustrations of La Folie Lucide .
It is , so fresh and lifelike , so full of the delicate painting which alone can do justice to the complexity of the feminine Organization ,
even when set all astray , that we believe conclusions may be as honestly drawn from its pages as from observations at first hand ;
for the Prison Matron has been trained by long experience , and her powers are enriched by comparisonuntil both observation and
deduction are extraordinarily acute . , The authorwhose name is not givensays on the first pages that
she wishes it , "to be clearly understood , that these are the honest reminiscences of one retired from Government service- —that many
years of prison experience enable her to offer her readers a fair statement of life and adventure at Brixton and Millbank prisons _^
and afford her the opportunity of attempting to convey some faint impression of the strange hearts that beat—perhaps break , a few
of them- _^ -within the high walls between them and general society / ' - Thus the stories she tells are revelations of what within those
passes dismal walls , whose secrets are so seldom told , the sequels , be it remembered , to the stories of the police court and of the court of
¦ assize usually which end thus peop — le " The read jury over , after their some breakfast deliberation tables , , returned and whicli a
verdict of guilty ; White , or Jones , or Brown , was sentenced to six years' penal servitude ; " or " Mr . Justice Bylesin addressing the
prisoner , said her case was one of the worst possible , character , and he should therefore inflict upon her the heaviest sentence which the
law allowed . His lordship then sentenced the prisoner to ten years ' penal servitude . " Sometimes , too , we read that the sentence of
death to be inflicted for child murder , or for making away with an intolerable husband , is commuted , by the Queen ' s gracious pleasure ,
to " penal servitude for life . " For us that is the end of the drama we have been following with sad and breathless interest ; the great
curtain of stone and brick drops down before the sinful victim who , after occupying public attention for a brief is seen and heard
space , no more ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1862, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091862/page/1/
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