Dickens and Prison Themes
Prison architecture and prison philosophy.
History of prisons in New York/Northeast
Influence of English penal system on America's prisons

Kings Bench Prison -  King's Bench Prison

                                               King's Bench Prison, from Microcosm of London (1808)
 

The Tombs, New York
 Painting the Town -- Museum of the City of New York
 The Tombs
 'Portals to Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil War' Excerpts Page 2
 CPA - Prison Buildings
 Tombs

Eastern State Prison - Philadelphia
 Eastern State Prison - see section on Dickens, 1842
 The Great American Landmarks Adventure
 Prison Records archives
 American Gothic mentions Dickens
 Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia  -an historic look
 Buildings paintings of prison by Audette
 Foucault: Pictures from Philadelphia - the Eastern State Penitentiary (1829-1971), is discussed by Foucault in Discipline & Punish.

 ESP :: Eastern State Penitentiary Website

 Eastern State Penitentiary
 

Marshalsea Prison
 Darkest London Charles Dickens and the Marshalsea Prison

 

 Newgate Prison

 
 

Fleet Prison   Jane Austen Law - Ackermann’s “Microcosm of London,” 1810)
 The Research Libraries of The New York Public Library /All Locations
 Call # Stuart 1114-1116
 Title: Microcosm of London.
 Imprint:  London, T. Bensley, printer [1808-11?]
 Humanities-Rare Bks & Mss - Stuart 1114-1116
 Descript: 3 v. 104 col. pl. 35 cm.
 Note:  Engraved t.-p.
 Half-title: The microcosm of London; or, London in miniature.
Engraved dedication signed by R. Ackermann, publisher of the work.
g"Text of the first two volumes by W.H. Pyne, and of the third by Combe ...
The topographical illustrations ... [are] by Augustus Charles Pugin ... with figures by Rowlandson."--Dict. nat. biog., articles Combe and Rowlandson.
Subject: London (England) -- Description and travel.
Add'l name: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834.
Pyne, W. H. (William Henry), 1769-1843.
Combe, William, 1742-1823.
Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832.
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827.
Alt title: London in miniature.

Dickens and copyright:
Dickens's 1842 Reading Tour: Launching the Copyright Question in Tempestuous Seas
 Dickens's 1867-68 Reading Tour: Re-Opening the Copyright Question
 Dickens in America
Dickens and reading - capturing the moment of author and audience.
Writer of social conscience.
Dicken's social values and his work.

Trumble, Alfred.  The New York Tombs [microform] : its history and its mysteries : life and death in New York's famous prison / by Alfred Trumble.
 New York : R.K. Fox, c1881.  52 p. : ill.
Microfilm. Woodbridge. Conn. : Research Publications, 1970-1978. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Wright American fiction ; v. 3 (1876-1900), reel T-33, no. 5585)