Publication

1955 - Secker & Warburg, London

Language

English

Word Count

63,500 words, Guess

Page Count

254 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC365.942
  • LCCHV9650.L95 C7

Description

In 1951 the novelist Rupert Croft-Cooke was convicted of an act of gross indecency with another male person and sentenced to nine months imprisonment, of which he served six months in Wormwood Scrubs and Brixton prisons. Three days after his release on 10th April 1952 he had a visit from a stranger warning him that he could easily find himself charged and convicted again if he wrote about how his previous conviction had been brought about - so he went to Morocco and wrote about the events in The Verdict of You All. Croft-Cooke wrote that he felt that his conviction and imprisonment did not hinder his career. Indeed he wrote that he was glad that it had all happened because he had learned a great deal of the best and worst of human nature. "It has been the most immensely worthwhile experience in my life" (Chapter 14, section 7). Nearly sixty of his books were published over the next two decades.

Subjects

Topics

HomosexualityWormwood Scrubs PrisonLondon Wormwood Scrubs PrisonWormwood Scrubs Prison, LondonWormwood Scrubs (Prison : London, England)

Places

Wormwood Scrubs

People

Rupert Croft-Cooke

Times

Other Editions

  • The verdict of you all.Secker & Warburg1955-01-01

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