Clodagh Finn: The Irish woman who led reform at London's Holloway Prison
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Prisoner governor and reformer Mary Size shares a joke at recreation in Askham Grange open prison for women in 1948.
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It was her “keen artistic abilities” that drew Mary Size’s attention. She noted that the countess — the only person she names in her memoir — sketched on toilet paper or whatever paper she could find. She also gathered old cleaning cloths, washed them and then pulled threads of blue and red from rags to embroider on them.