Nancy Farrar, a patient at West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire. Photograph attributed to James Crichton-Browne, 1873.

An elderly woman wearing a bonnet, identified as Nancy Farrar, from Horbury, West Yorkshire. She was admitted to the West Riding Asylum in June 1852 as a forty-five year old single mill hand. She was said to have been suffering from melancholia for about 12 months. This photograph of Nancy was taken in 1873 when she would have been 66 years old. In August that year her physician wrote: "Patient is getting much thinner though her mental condition is unchanged. She is under the impression that everyone about wishes to injure her and that she is consumed by the fire inside her." Nancy’s health deteriorated with age and she passed away in the Asylum in June 1886. -- records in the West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield, Yorkshire, identified by David Scrimgeour, op. cit.