Millbank Prison

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Textual Features Bessie Rayner Parkes
BRP 's articles for the English Woman's Journal include The Market for Educated Female Labour, What Can Educated Women Do?, Statistics as to the Employment of the Female Population of Great Britain,...
Textual Production Sarah Waters
SW set her second lesbian historical novel, Affinity, in a Victorian women's prison: Millbank jail in the London of the 1870s.
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Timeline

1855: One pentagon at Millbank Prison in London...

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1855

One pentagon at Millbank Prison in London was reallocated to female convicts.
Zedner, Lucia. Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England. Clarendon, 1991, http://U of A HSS.
179

1856: Fulham Refuge, a prison for women nearing...

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1856

Fulham Refuge , a prison for women nearing the end of penal servitude sentences, opened in London.
Zedner, Lucia. Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England. Clarendon, 1991, http://U of A HSS.
179-82

1859: Officials at Millbank Prison in London reported...

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1859

Officials at Millbank Prison in London reported 154 separate riots among its female convict population during the course of this year.
Zedner, Lucia. Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England. Clarendon, 1991, http://U of A HSS.
208-9

1869: Woking Prison for female convicts opened...

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1869

Woking Prison for female convicts opened.
Zedner, Lucia. Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England. Clarendon, 1991, http://U of A HSS.
182, 212

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