Emma Page, a patient at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire. Photograph attributed to James Crichton-Browne, 1873.

A young woman wearing her hair in ringlets, identified as Emma Page from Lockwood, near Huddersfield. She was admitted to the West Riding Asylum in May 1866 as a thirty-six year old widow. Emma suffered from delusions. She believed that all her food was poisoned, and that persons, including her brother, would enter her locked house and steal her documents and valuable property. The Queen of England and the Emperor of France were going to ensure that she took possession of large properties which she had in India and America. This photograph of Emma was taken in 1873. Her case notes also contain an undated picture of a much older Emma. She was still wearing her hair in ringlets. She remained in the Asylum until her death in July 1911 from tuberculosis. She was 81 years old. -- records in the West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield, Yorkshire, identified by David Scrimgeour, op. cit.