The Subterranean Brotherhood (1914)

Julian Hawthorne's prison memoir reflects on confinement, prison society, and reform after his own incarceration. (Open Library)

Watches

Ingersoll watch: Hawthorne notes the return of the Ingersoll watch taken from him when he entered the prison, grounding the memoir's institutional details in a real everyday watch.

Source text: I should perhaps have premised, lest he appear in the light of asking something for nothing, that he had opened the conversation by handing back to me the Ingersoll watch of which I had been deprived on entering the institution. (Project Gutenberg ebook 8406)