Download or read book Jane Austen's Aunt Behind Bars written by Stephen Wade and published by Thames River Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collected essays explore the lives of several writers in Georgian and Victorian Britain, in terms of their knowledge and experience of prison life. This book focuses on the lives of the writers themselves, or on the prison stretches endured by their relatives or acquaintances. Some of these writers were locked up for debt, while others were deprived of liberty for sedition or treason. Here the reader will find, amongst many other stories, accounts of Dickens's father in debtors' prison, of Leigh Hunt living with his whole family in The Surrey House of Correction and of Oscar Wilde in Reading Gaol.