Lost Souls: Women, Religion and Mental Illness in the Victorian Asylum by Diana Peschier

Lost Souls: Women, Religion and Mental Illness in the Victorian Asylum

Diana Peschier

224 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

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How did the Victorians view mental illness? After discovering the case-notes of women in Victorian asylums, Diana Peschier reveals how mental illness was recorded by both medical practitioners and in the popular literature of the era, and why madn...

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