Yield to the Night (novel)

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Yield to the Night
First edition
AuthorJoan Henry
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreDrama
PublisherGollancz
Publication date
1954
Media typePrint

Yield to the Night is a 1954 novel by the British writer Joan Henry. Henry had served a prison sentence in 1951 for passing fraudulent cheques and had written a bestselling book Who Lie in Gaol based on her experiences. She followed this up with Yield to the Night a fictional story about a woman sentenced to death for murder.[1]

Film adaptation[edit]

In 1956 it was adapted into a film of the same title directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Diana Dors, Yvonne Mitchell and Michael Craig.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Schwan p.2
  2. ^ Goble p.217

Bibliography[edit]

  • Chibnall, Steve. J. Lee Thompson. Manchester University Press, 2021.
  • Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
  • Schwan, Anne. Convict Voices: Women, Class, and Writing about Prison in Nineteenth-Century England. University of New Hampshire Press, 2 Dec 2014.