In this lively study of the development and transformation of voices of female offenders in nineteenth-century England, Anne Schwan analyzes a range of colorful

"Crime narratives provide one of the most vivid means of accessing the reality of life and criminality in the early modern period. With an extended introduction

In 1884, the first of 68 prisoners convicted of terrorism and revolutionary activity were transferred to a new maximum security prison at Shlissel´burg Fortres