Bad Girls
the rebels and renegades of holloway prison
$40.74
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
20 February 2019
Summary
Bad Girls: The Scandalous History of Holloway Prison
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’ J…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473647763 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1473647762 |
| Author: | Caitlin Davies |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 20 February 2019 |
| Weight: | 277g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 23mm |
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Critics Review
Caitlin Davies writes with warmth, empathy and humour about the women - some brave and rebellious - who spent time in Holloway Prison. Assiduously researched, Bad Girls documents interweaving struggles against prejudice, injustice, ignorance and poverty. It is a call for a more enlightened justice system that provides respect and rehabilitation, the stirrings of which were evident on my visits, as the local Member of Parliament, to the prison before its closure in 2016. The stark mismatch between prison regimes and everyday life in the streets outside points to the potential benefit of increased contact between prisons and local communities. I want to thank Caitlin Davies for ensuring the real history of Holloway is written in this insightful and thought-provoking book - which makes for a ripping good read - Jeremy Corbyn
Fascinating both for its portrait of larger-than-life women and the ways in which they were regarded by wide society during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - History RevealedReadable, compelling and illuminating - The BooksellerDavies’s absorbing study serves up just enough sensationalism - and eccentricity - along with its serious inquiry … Davies captures the sense of camaraderie that blossomed inside Holloway, occasionally between warder and inmate … Davies uses the prison as a prism through which to chart changing attitudes to women over the past 164 years - beginning with the Victorian notion of “double deviance”, which suggested that female criminals had broken not only the law of the land, but that of nature by committing “unwomanly” acts - SUNDAY TIMESIt’s such a great read … fascinating - Jo Good, BBC Radio LondonA rich, superbly researched, definitive history of Holloway Prison … There are so many heartbreaking stories within stories in the book’ - The HeraldMeticulously records a much-needed and balanced history of this home to “royalty and socialites, spies and prostitutes … Nazis and aliens, terrorists and freedom fighters” and thousands of very ordinary desperate women - ObserverAbout The Author
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.
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