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Women, crime and punishment in Ireland : life in the nineteenth-century convict prison
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- Creator
- Elaine Farrell
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020
- ©2020
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- 1 online resource
- ISBNs
- 1108880894, 9781108839501, 1108884245, 9781108813266, 1108839509, 9781108880893, 9781108884242, 1108813267
- OCLC
- on1152457547, on1152358653
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Introduction : 'another generation of jail-birds' -- Case Study 1. 'The terrible temptation' : Mary Enright -- 'A powerful engine in reforming the prisoner' : the prison framework and the convict body and mind -- Case Study 2. 'A gang of coiners' : the Carroll family -- 'A strange medley of character do these prisoners' friends present' : family ties -- Case Study 3. 'The workhouse girls' : arson in the South Dublin Union
- 'Even in prison, they have those extreme friendships, antipathies, and jealousies' : convict relationships -- Case Study 4. 'A person of very superior attainments' : Delia Lidwill -- 'At first she refused to say how she got it' : networks of acquisition -- Case Study 5. 'A most remote part of the country' : suspected murder in Mayo -- 'I will be very desolate leaving prison' : liberation -- Conclusion : 'I think of the time that you and myself ust [used] to be to gether'