Lost souls : women, religion and mental illness in the Victorian asylum / Diana Peschier.

  • Peschier, Diana, 1950-
Date:
2020
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Physical description

xv, 203 pages, 8 pages of plates : black and white portraits ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-196) and index.

Contents

Introduction: The Sin of Eve and dangerous emotions -- Wives, mothers and abuse of women in the asylum -- Women with religious excitement -- Evangelical Sunday school teaching: lessons for girls -- Physical illness -- Asylums and madness mirrored in nineteenth-century literature -- Male asylum patients.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    PP.RX.AA8
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ISBN

  • 9781788318075
  • 1788318072