Mary Keighley, a patient at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire. Photograph attributed to James Crichton-Browne, 1873.
- Crichton-Browne, James, 1840-1938.
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- [1873]
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- 35156i
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- West Riding Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire: photographs of patients.
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A woman, looking upwards with her mouth slightly open, identified as Mary Keighley, from Bradford. She was admitted to the West Riding Asylum in May 1863 as a thirty-two year old married mill hand suffering from mania. According to her case notes, "She is very restless and cannot sleep at night roams about the house all day talks all sorts of nonsense. Says she sees the Catholic Bishop with woman up stairs and other men with various women all which are false." In Mary's case notes her photograph is dated 1873. Mary would spend the rest of her life in the Asylum. She passed away in June 1896 and was interred at St Peter's Parish Church, Stanley. -- records in the West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield, Yorkshire, identified by David Scrimgeour, op. cit.
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