Jail journal, or,
Five years in british prisons [facsim. of ed. published in Glasgow :
Cameron & Ferguson, 1876] / John Mitchel. - Otley (West Yorkshire) :
Woodstock books, 1996. - 320 p. ; 21 cm. - (Hibernia).
ISBN 1-85477-218-X
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THE CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO
LITERATURE IN ENGLISH 1 :
Mitchel, John (1815-75). Irish patriot writer. […] In 1842
he met Thomas Davis, joined O'Connell's Repeal Association in
1843, and by 1845 was writing for the Young Ireland paper The
Nation. More republican and anti-British than his associates,
he founded his own more extreme paper, The United Irishman,
in 1848. Soon afterwards he was arrested and convicted of treason.
Sentenced to transportation, he was taken to Bermuda, South Africa
and, finally, Tasmania, whence he escaped to the USA in 1853.
All these experiences were recorded in his most famous work,
the Jail Journal (1854), which registers his quarrel not
merely with British policy but with the economic triumphalism,
as he saw it, of British civilization.
[…]
- Londres : Guild Publishing,
1988 (p. 671)
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COMPLÉMENT
BIBLIOGRAPHIQUE
- « Jail journal, or,
Five years in british prisons », Dublin : J.
Corrigan, 1864
- « Jail journal, or,
Five years in british prisons », Glasgow : Cameron
& Ferguson, 1876
- « The gardens of
hell : John Mitchel in Van Diemen's land 1850-1853 »
ed. by Peter O'Shaughnessy, Kenthurst : Kangaroo press,
1988
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