Newgate novel such as Wilkie Collins's "The Woman in White" (1859); an early example of the latter is "The Moonstone" (1868), again by Collins. All were often serialised in a form that gave rise to the penny dreadful magazines. Newgate novel The Newgate novels (or Old Bailey novels) were novels published in England from the late 1820s until the 1840s that were thought to glamorise the lives of the criminals they portrayed. Most drew their inspiration from the "Newgate Calendar", a biography of famous criminals published at various times during the late 18th and early 19th centuries, but usually rearranged or embellished
La Santé Prison Joseph Auguste Émile Vaudremer built the prison, which was inaugurated on 20 August 1867. The prison is located on the site of a former "Coal market" and replaced the Madelonnettes Convent in the 3rd Arrondissement which had been used as a prison since the Revolution . Previously, on the same site, was a "maison de la santé" (House of health), built on the orders of Anne of Austria and transferred in 1651 to what is now the "Sainte-Anne Hospital" (in the south). Initially, there were 500 cells which was increased to 1,000 in 1900 following the closure of the Paris