The prison was Bridewell, London’s first “house of correction,” and it loomed over both writers in a way literary history has mostly overlooked. I quickly became interested in Bridewell, the original “house of correction,” because it stood out as a paradox for historicist literary scholars. What did the Bridewell records show you that you weren’t expecting? There’s a chapter in the book about a printer named Richard Grafton, one of the founders of Bridewell. That’s many centuries before most people tend to think about the beginning of anything like a movement for prison abolition.