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Bad Girls: The Rebels and Renegades of Holloway Prison

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By (author): Caitlin Davies

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING

''Davies''s absorbing study serves up just enough sensationalism - and eccentricity - along with its serious inquiry'' SUNDAY TIMES

''[A] revealing account of the jail''s 164-year history'' DAILY TELEGRAPH, 5* review

''Insightful and thought-provoking and makes for a ripping good read'' JEREMY CORBYN

''A much-needed and balanced history'' OBSERVER

''Davies explores how society has dealt with disobedient women - from suffragettes to refugees to women seeking abortions - for decades, and how they''ve failed to silence those who won''t go down without a fight'' STYLIST

Society has never known what to do with its rebellious women.

Those who defied expectations about feminine behaviour have long been considered dangerous and unnatural, and ever since the Victorian era they have been removed from public view, locked up and often forgotten about. Many of these women ended up at HM Prison Holloway, the self-proclaimed ''terror to evil-doers'' which, until its closure in 2016, was western Europe''s largest women''s prison.

First built in 1852 as a House of Correction, Holloway''s women have come from all corners of the UK - whether a patriot from Scotland, a suffragette from Huddersfield, or a spy from the Isle of Wight - and from all walks of life - socialites and prostitutes, sporting stars and nightclub queens, refugees and freedom fighters. They were imprisoned for treason and murder, for begging, performing abortions and stealing clothing coupons, for masquerading as men, running brothels and attempting suicide. In Bad Girls, Caitlin Davies tells their stories and shows how women have been treated in our justice system over more than a century, what crimes - real or imagined - they committed, who found them guilty and why. It is a story of victimization and resistance; of oppression and bravery.

From the women who escaped the hangman''s noose - and those who didn''t - to those who escaped Holloway altogether, Bad Girls is a fascinating look at how disobedient and defiant women changed not only the prison service, but the course of history.

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Product Details
  • Format: Paperback
  • Weight: 280g
  • Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 21 Feb 2019
  • Publisher: John Murray Press
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • ISBN13: 9781473647763

About Caitlin Davies

Caitlin Davies is a novelist non-fiction author and award-winning journalist. Born in London in 1964 she started her writing career in Botswana where she worked for the country''s first tabloid newspaper the Voice. She then became editor of the Okavango Observer during which she was twice arrested and put on trial. Returning to England in 2003 she has worked as a teacher and freelance journalist and is currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Bad Girls grew out of her longstanding interest in Holloway Prison where she completed her teacher training in 1990. She was the only journalist to be given access to the prison and its archives during Holloway''s closure in 2016. caitlindavies.co.uk @CaitlinDavies2

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