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4 unusual facts about Millbank prison


Breakwater Lodge

The design with four castellated turrets and an enclosed courtyard was styled after Millbank and Pentonville prisons in England.

Millbank Prison

In Henry James's realist novel The Princess Casamassima (1886) the prison is the "primal scene" of Hyacinth Robinson's life: the visit to his mother, dying in the infirmary, is described in chapter 3.

Tate

The original Tate art gallery was called the National Gallery of British Art, situated on Millbank, Pimlico, London at the site of the former Millbank Prison.

The Princess Casamassima

Florentine had stabbed her lover to death several years ago, and Pinnie (as Miss Pynsent is nicknamed) takes Hyacinth to see her as she lies dying at Millbank prison.



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