Catalogue description Betty Jerman's notes

This record is held by London University: London School of Economics, The Women's Library

Details of 7BJE/1/2
Reference: 7BJE/1/2
Title: Betty Jerman's notes
Description:

Jerman's notes relating to the Pauline Jones case. Includes: manuscript notes on Jones' publicity, the Weller's story and press contract; hospital treatment; Radical Alternatives to Prison; notes on the court case, judge and appeal; petitions; notes on Jones' background and state of mind; notes re Catherine Whitehead's meeting with Pauline about prison life, later used for an article on Pauline Jones. With typescript notes possibly for later publication, including a draft outline for a book Betty Jerman was planning to write on Pauline Jones and baby-abduction. The typescript covers issues such as Delia McCall's abduction of baby Natalie Horrell, and the three year prison sentence she received; conditions for the women in prison - psychiatric treatment and solitary confinement; Radical Alternatives to Prison; Pauline Jones' background and family life; copy-cat cases; Jones' release from Styal prison.
Date: 1971 - Aug 1988
Held by: London University: London School of Economics, The Women's Library, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Physical description: 1 folder

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