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    Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life
    Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life
    Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life
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    Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life

    By Oscar Wilde

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
    Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life
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    Oscar Wilde

    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was a Dublin-born poet and playwright who studied at the Portora Royal School, before attending Trinity College and Magdalen College, Oxford. The son of two writers, Wilde grew up in an intellectual environment. As a young man, his poetry appeared in various periodicals including Dublin University Magazine. In 1881, he published his first book Poems, an expansive collection of his earlier works. His only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, was released in 1890 followed by the acclaimed plays Lady Windermere’s Fan (1893) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895).

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      Title: Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life

      Author: Oscar Wilde

      Release Date: February 16, 2013 [EBook #42104]

      Language: English

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      CHILDREN IN PRISON

      AND

      OTHER CRUELTIES

      OF

      PRISON LIFE.

      MURDOCH & CO.,

      26, Paternoster Square,

      London.

      PUBLISHERS' NOTE.

      The circumstance which called forth this letter is a woeful one for Christian England. Martin, the Reading warder, is found guilty of feeding the hungry, nursing the sick, of being kindly and humane. These are his offences in plain unofficial language.

      This pamphlet is tendered to earnest persons as evidence that the prison system is opposed to all that is kind and helpful. Herein is shown a process that is dehumanizing, not only to the prisoners, but to every one connected with it.

      Martin was dismissed. It happened in May last year. He is still out of employment and in poor circumstances. Can anyone help him?

      February, 1898.

      SOME CRUELTIES OF PRISON LIFE.

      THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY CHRONICLE.

      Sir,—I learn with great regret, through an extract from the columns of your paper, that the warder Martin, of Reading Prison, has been dismissed by the Prison Commissioners for having given some sweet biscuits to a little hungry child. I saw the three children myself on the Monday preceding my release. They had just been convicted, and

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