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| Title Statement | The convict lover: a true story / Merilyn Simonds. |
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| Author | Simonds, Merilyn, 1949- |
| Publication | Toronto, Ontario: ECW Press,[2018]©2018 |
| Edition | New edition. |
| Extent of Item | 402 pages |
| ISBN | 1770414479 (pbk.) 9781770414471 (pbk.) |
| Other Number | 3352180 |
| Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary | Recounts the story of prisoner Joseph Cleroux who was incarcerated in the Kingston Penitentiary in 1919 and the schoolgirl Phyllis Halliday he wrote to after she found one of his letters in the quarry where he was doing hard time. The book is based on letters the author found in her home. |
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| By Topic | Prisoners--Biography--Ontario--Kingston |
| By Name | Cleroux, Joseph David,1892 or 1895- |
| Kingston Penitentiary--History | |
| Halliday, Phyllis,-1986 | |
