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Author Bowen, Leah Simone

Title The Flood : And Other Misadventures of the Female Prisoners of the St. Lawrence Market
Published Toronto : Playwrights Canada Press, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (64 pages)
Summary In 1887, women were property and could be imprisoned for any reason. Jail was considered a place for the criminal, the disabled, the mentally ill, and the marginalized. Inspired by true accounts and the history of Toronto's St. Lawrence Market, The Flood gives voice to the little-known stories of early female prisoners in Canada
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Subject Women prisoners -- Drama
Women prisoners
Genre/Form Drama
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781770919396
1770919392