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Name
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Prelude to Christopher, The Island
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Type of carceral site
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Lock Hospital
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Quote
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[...] some remote ancestral legend of Hy-Brazil, the lost Eden, the island of the blessed [...]
Novel, Fiction.
Dark, Eleanor. Prelude to Christopher. Allen & Unwin, 2012 [1934], p. 19.
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He had sat there and listened, knowing that Nigel, worshipper of normality, apostle of Eugenics, founder of a colony whose basis was to be the rearing of healthy children from untainted stock, was about to marry a potential lunatic; he had enjoyed the thought. Nigel began to tremble. He was seeing further; his colony where no one might come who had not been passed by himself and Pen as mentally and physically sound. His children, who were to have grown up with the other children of the colony, learning simple, logical rules of health and conduct, hearing of the world they had left as if it were history, a legend of bad days long past [...]
Novel, Fiction.
Dark, Eleanor. Prelude to Christopher. Allen & Unwin, 2012 [1934], p. 43.
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His precious island! His fantastic experiment! It had failed, hadn't it? Gone to pieces ignominiously as it deserved to! [...] Nothing was left that they could attack but the sexual aspect; his Eugenics, his birth-control, his sex-hygiene.
Novel, Fiction.
Dark, Eleanor. Prelude to Christopher. Allen & Unwin, 2012 [1934], p. 63.
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Authority
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Private authority
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Contact
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Niamh
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identifier
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SITE-ISL