Add this copy of Woman in Prison By Caroline H Woods to cart. $27.60, new condition, Sold by Books2anywhere rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Fairford, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2006 by University of Michigan Library.
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Add this copy of Woman in Prison. by Caroline H. Woods. to cart. $30.46, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2006 by University of Michigan Library.
Add this copy of Woman in Prison. By Caroline H. Woods to cart. $52.67, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Scholarly Publishing Office, U.
Add this copy of Woman in Prison to cart. $92.00, good condition, Sold by Autumn Leaves rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Allentown, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1869 by Hurd and Houghton.
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Good with no dust jacket. Good Plus in None jacket This book looks to me like unique social history. The author was evidently a missionary who took a job as matron of a women's prison. A brief scan of the book doesn't reveal where this was, but I'm guessing Boston. The prisoners seem mostly to be Irish (Annie O'Brien, Bridget O'Sullivan, etc. ). The author is clearly a reformer, who believed in rehabilitation. Most of the book recounts daily activities and interactions, rather than lapsing into extensive religious harangues, as so many Victorian authors were wont to do. There is a great deal of dialogue. I believe the author's purpose was to reveal the prison as a place where human beings lived, worked and suffered, rather than as a faceless institution locked away from scrutiny and filled with subhuman criminal types--a low-key approach to reform. Hence the detail about daily life. The condition is quite good for the age of the book. It is slightly cocked and darkened with the dust of ages, but the binding is sound and the pages, although tanned, are intact.
