Yield to the Night (novel) explained

Yield to the Night
Author:	Joan Henry
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English
Genre:	Drama
Publisher:	Gollancz
Release Date:	1954
Media Type:	Print

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

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]

Bibliography

• 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.

Notes and References

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