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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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    This is a letter Oscar Wilde wrote to the London Daily Chronicle after a guard in Reading prison, where Wilde himself was incarcorated, was fired for feeding a starving child that was imprisoned there: actually feeding prisoners was against regulations.
    LanguageEnglish
    Publisherepf
    Release dateSep 8, 2019
    ISBN9780244816841
    Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life
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    Oscar Wilde

    OSCAR WILDE (Dublín, 1854–París, 1900), poeta y dramaturgo irlandés, es considerado uno de los más célebres escritores en lengua inglesa de todos los tiempos, tanto por su provocadora personalidad como por su obra. Escribió relatos y novelas, como El retrato de Dorian Gray, poemas como el desgarrador La balada de la cárcel de Reading, y fue enormemente popular en el Londres victoriano por su exitosa producción teatral, como La importancia de llamarse Ernesto, y por su ingenio mordaz y brillante conversación.

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      Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life - Oscar Wilde

      Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life

      Oscar Wilde

      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

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