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The Curious Mr Howard : Legendary Prison Reformer.
Looks at Howard's immense achievements and his fascinating life. Sheds new light on what drove the UK's most famous prison reformer.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Waterside Press
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover ; Copyright; Also by Tessa West; Contents; Acknowledgements; The Author ; Timeline; Preface; Introduction; Dedication; Finding His Way; Family Background; Childhood and Growing Up; Part of the Howard Family Tree; Part of the Whitbread Family Tree; The Young Adult; Alone; The Grand Tour; Convalescence; Marriage to Sarah; Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society; Voyage Towards Lisbon, Capture and Release; Domesticity at Cardington; Cardington; Marriage to Henrietta; Improvements in the Village and at Home; Science and Surveying; Birth of Jack and Death of Henrietta; Jack and Restlessness.
- The Lone FatherDid Howard Discuss his Feelings With Anyone?; Accusations; The Other Side of It; The Discussion Continued; Getting on With Life; Abroad Again; And Home Again; Potatoes; Two Decisions; On the Road; Servants; Thoughts While Away; The Business of Travelling; Covenant; More Sights, More Thoughts; Home and Off Again; Home, Shrievalty and Prisons; Back to Cardington; The Making of the Sheriff; First Prisoners, First Prisons; Researching and Travelling; The Interest Becomes an Obsession; Potential Dangers; Itinerary for 1774; Upbringing, Education, Religion.
- Desire to Do Good and Relieve SufferingObsession; Loss and Loneliness; Asperger's Syndrome; Speed; Accumulated Causes; Howard in the House; Refreshment En Route; Sought out by the House of Commons; A Seat in the House of Commons?; The Essence of What Howard Found in a Year of Prison Visits; The Result of the Election; The State of the Prisons; The Great Book; Contents; Examples from 'A Particular Account of English Prisons'; Extracts from 'Distress in Prisons'; Extracts from 'Bad Customs'; Examples from 'Proposed Improvements'; Foreign Prisons and Hospitals; Holland; Germany.
- Denmark and SwedenRussia; Italy; Switzerland, Austrian Netherlands and Spain; France; What Howard Learned Abroad; But What About Language?; Prisoners-of-War; Scottish and Irish Prisons; Hulks; Gaol-Fever, etc.; Prisoners-of-War in England; Scottish and Irish Prisons; Hulks on the Thames; Remarks on the Gaol-Fever; Howard's Conclusions; The Writer, Editor, Publisher and Penitentiary Superintendent; Writing and Editing the Great Book; Warrington and Eyres' Press; Publication and Fame; Anna Howard's Death; The Penitentiary Superintendent; Failure.
- More about Jack, More prisons and More AnecdotesFather and Son; Events in Edinburgh; Still More Prisons; Howard in Blunt Mode; Yet More Prisons; More Anecdotes; Yet More About Jack; Yet More Anecdotes; Lazarettos and the Plague; Adventure; Firstly to France; Across Southern Europe in Search of the Plague; Towards the Lazaretto at Venice; In the Lazaretto; Unwelcome News; More About the Plague; Progress?; Back to Cardington; Freedom; Jack; Problems of Popularity; Gaols, Charter Schools and Honours; In Ireland; The Book About Lazarettos; Howard Contradicted.