Pit of shame : the real ballad of Reading Gaol
Gives an 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.
History
xv, 192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9781904380214, 1904380212
154945299
1. The Old Reading Gaols
2. The New Prison
3. Punishments of Former Times
4. Executions
5. Prisoner C.3.3 Oscar Wilde
Illustrations
6. The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Illustrations
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
1. 'Arrested Development' / Theodore Dalrymple
2. Rules for Prisoners (c.1850)
3. Prison Dietary Scales (c.1850)
4. List of Executions