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Convict Lives: Female Convicts at the New Norfolk Asylum

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Description:In 1859, the Commissioners of the Hospital of the Insane at New Norfolk wrote: 'It must be borne in mind that a large majority of the patients ... confined in the asylum have been of the convict class, the offspring of diseased parents, inheriting in very many cases a defective intellect, brought up from the earliest childhood in misery and vice, and leading in after years a life of sensual debauchery and crime, resulting in enfeeblement alike of body and mind-a more hopeless class of subjects it would be impossible to collect together in one institution.' Convict Lives: Female Convicts at the New Norfolk Asylum explores the veracity of this statement. By using archival material and family records, the book's 22 authors reconstruct the lives of individual convict women. They explore not only the reasons for admission but the treatment of the women while there.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Convict Lives: Female Convicts at the New Norfolk Asylum. To get started finding Convict Lives: Female Convicts at the New Norfolk Asylum, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 220

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Publisher: Convict Women’s Press

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ISBN: 0648401901

Description: In 1859, the Commissioners of the Hospital of the Insane at New Norfolk wrote: 'It must be borne in mind that a large majority of the patients ... confined in the asylum have been of the convict class, the offspring of diseased parents, inheriting in very many cases a defective intellect, brought up from the earliest childhood in misery and vice, and leading in after years a life of sensual debauchery and crime, resulting in enfeeblement alike of body and mind-a more hopeless class of subjects it would be impossible to collect together in one institution.' Convict Lives: Female Convicts at the New Norfolk Asylum explores the veracity of this statement. By using archival material and family records, the book's 22 authors reconstruct the lives of individual convict women. They explore not only the reasons for admission but the treatment of the women while there.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Convict Lives: Female Convicts at the New Norfolk Asylum. To get started finding Convict Lives: Female Convicts at the New Norfolk Asylum, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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