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Tuesday, 23 November 2010

NEWGATE PRISON IN LITERATURE

NEWGATE PRISON IN LITERATURE




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  • NEWGATE PRISON APPEARS A NUMBER OF TIMES IN LITERATURE



  • The prison appears in a number of novels by Charles Dickens, including Oliver Twist, Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty and Great Expectations, and is the subject of an entire essay in his work Sketches by Boz









  • Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle



  • Joseph O'Connor's novel Star of the Sea - where one section concerns a character's imprisonment and subsequent escape from Newgate.











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