Pit of shame : the real ballad of Reading Gaol / Anthony Stokes ; with a foreword by Theodore Dalrymple.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stokes, Anthony.

Contributor:

Dalrymple, Theodore.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisons--England--Reading--History.

Prisons.

Prison administration--England--Reading--History.

Prison administration.

County Gaol & House of Correction (Reading, England).

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.

Wilde, Oscar.

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Ballad of Reading Gaol.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (200 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Winchester [England] : Waterside Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Gives a unique account of the life and times of one of the UK's most famous prisons - a fame that flows directly from an account of the execution of Trooper Charles Thomas Wooldridge (CTW) as written by Reading Gaol's best-known prisoner, C.3.3, the pseudonym of Oscar Wilde.

Contents:

Cover

Acknowledgements

A Note from Reading's Governing Governor

About the author

CONTENTS

List of illustrations

Foreword Theodore Dalrymple

Preface

Timeline

1 The Old Reading Gaols

2 The New Prison

3 Punishments of Former Times

4 Executions

5 Prisoner C.3.3 Oscar Wilde

6 The Ballad of Reading Gaol

7 The Easter Rising and Internment

8 Invisible Prisoners

9 A Pioneering Borstal Correctional Centre

10 Starting Again with a Clean Sheet

11 Life as a Local Prison

12 HM Remand Centre and Young Offender Institution

13 'Reading Gaol' Today and in the Future

Appendix 1: Arrested Development by Theodore Dalrymple

Appendix 2: Rules for Prisoners (c.1850)

Appendix 3: Prison Dietary Scales (c.1850)

Appendix 4: List of Executions

Prilllary Sources, Internet Sites and Select Bibliography

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-188) and index.

ISBN:

9786611124731

9781281124739

1281124737

9781906534455

1906534454

OCLC:

923509392