Yield to the Night (novel)

Yield to the Night

First edition
Author	Joan Henry
Language	English
Genre	Drama
Publisher	Gollancz
Publication date	1954
Publication place	United Kingdom
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]

References

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

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.