Charles Dickens Visited Eastern State Penitentiary
Charles Dickens visited Eastern State Penitentiary in the 1840s during a tour of the U.S. and wrote about it in American Notes, condemning the practice of solitary confinement. Dickens makes an appearance in Locked in Silence. "The Solitary Man" is an engraving from American Notes, the book Dickens wrote about his visit to America.
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