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  • Woking Convict Invalid Prison: five women prisoners convicted of infanticide. Process print after Paul Renouard, 1889.
  • Elizabeth Fry is seated at a table in Newgate Prison, London, surrounded by women prisoners listening to her. Etching and aquatint.
  • Cornelia, the Vestal Virgin, entombed alive surrounded by bones in the dungeon. Line engraving by G. Mochetti after B. Pinelli.
  • China: a woman sentenced to execution by strangulation for murdering her husband. Photograph, 19--.
  • Elizabeth Fry is seated at a table in Newgate Prison, London, surrounded by women prisoners listening to her. Etching and aquatint.
  • Woking Convict Invalid Prison: women prisoners working the fire pump. Process print after Paul Renouard, 1889.
  • Shanghai: three Chinese women prisoners locked at the neck into one cangue (portable pillory). Photograph, 18--.
  • Woking Convict Invalid Prison: a woman prisoner in solitary confinement. Process print after P. Renouard, 1889.