'She wore a severe blue-grey dress and a white apron like her fellow female inmates.
The dress was standard issue and had been made by women who had lived behind the wall before her.
It was not designed to flatter, but to last.
' Behind the Wall is a compelling social history, which provides an insight into Adelaide's Destitute Asylum and the women who experienced life behind its walls.
'Once a week she was permitted to leave the grounds for five or six ho.
Wakefield Press Behind the wall: the women of the destitute asylum adelaide, 1852-1918, paperback/mary geyer
