My name is Natasha and I am a second-year undergraduate studying English at Liverpool John Moores University. I am interested in researching the literature of crime and conviction specifically in the 1700s-1900s. I will be exploring both non-fiction and fiction by reading literary and non-literary sources and examining how they impact each other. My blogs will focus on texts such as Oliver Twist, Moll Flanders and Affinity solely investigating prison life, transportation, trials, prison memoirs, executions and convict love. I will explore, for example, to what extent Charles Dickens work shows sympathy towards offenders and prisoners, in contrast to his contemporaries and how the Newgate Prison born, Moll Flanders and her husband are in ‘penitence for the wicked lives [they] have lived’.

Thank you for taking the time to read my posts. Natasha