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
The Prison House The Prison House The Prison House is the sixth novel written by John King, published in 2004 by Jonathan Cape. The main character in the book is an Englishman, Jimmy Ramone, who has reached a crossroads in his life. After many months of drifting and drinking his way around Europe he finds himself incarcerated for two years in Seven Towers, a notorious prison in an unnamed south European country. Although Jimmy has always been an outsider, he is now a fully-fledged alien who doesn't understand the language or customs of the other inmates. The prison is squalid, violent, and full