Eighteen Months' Imprisonment

A candid first-person memoir recounts an arrest and the subsequent experience of remand, trial, and incarceration across London's detention houses and gaols. It sketches routines of prison life—food, cells, workshops, the tread-wheel, gardening, hospital and convalescent wards—alongside portraits of fellow inmates, staff, and courtroom scenes. Chapters examine executions, criminal lunacy, visiting justices, prison trades, and moral reflections on justice, mercy, and social attitudes, mixing descriptive reporting with anecdote and retrospective commentary on punishment and reform.