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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Bridewell"”.
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Pedagogies Of Power: Gender, Race, And Bridewell Hospital On The Early Modern Stage
… space where such pedagogy takes shape: London’s Bridewell Hospital, a workhouse, prison, and charitable institution founded to reform “lewd” women. When “Bridewell” is staged as a setting, I suggest that it is not just a backdrop but a political filter atop the action of the scene that freezes …
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Imprisoning Chicago: Incarceration, The Chicago City Council, Prisoners, and Reform, 1832-1915
<p>The Chicago Bridewell and the Chicago House of Correction were unique institutions which illuminate the development of nineteenth-century city incarceration from a fluid to a rigid status. Both institutions detained misdemeanants and violators of city ordinances. They shared similarities with …
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An architecture of authority: the jail/sheriff's residences of northwest Ohio, 1867-1902
… namely I the county gaol that emerged from the Bridewell in the eighteenth century. The Jail/Sheriff's Residence is a heretofore unclassified building-type consisting of two primary parts, a residence for the County Sheriff and the county jail. The buildings are primarily located in Ohio and …
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Lucy Negro, Redux
… research with Dr. Salkeld in order to explore Bridewell Prison records, now held in the Bethlem Hospital Archives in England. Galvanized by that research, the work evolved into a collection that experiments with form, dialect, the adoption of historical personas, and the very voices these …
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Perquisites And Pilfering In The London Docks, 1700-1795
… Court of' Summary Jurisdiction, the famous Bridewell. Other offences, which magistrates and prosecutors preferred to see as more serious, were prosecuted by indictment and therefore came before the Court of the Old Bailey. Furthermore, Dockside Constables also had a special part to play in …