An early offering because the Eighteenth-Century Fiction journal office will be closed next week for vacation, and I didn’t want anyone to miss out on the ECF Tumblr Tuesday posting. This scene in an eighteenth-century prison is from William Hayley, Ode, Inscribed to John Howard, Esq. F.R.S., Author of “The State of English and Foreign Prisons,” 3rd. ed. (London: J. Dodsley, 1782).
For comments on eighteenth-century prisons and prisonlike conditions, see the following ECF articles: “Fashioning the Legal Subject: Narratives from the London Treason Trials of 1794,” by Nancy E. Johnson; “’Extraordinary and dangerous powers’: Prisons, Police, and Literature in Godwin’s Caleb Williams,” by Quentin Bailey; and “’A perfect Retreat indeed’: Speculation, Surveillance, and Space in Defoe’s Roxana,” by Christina L. Healey.
