Lost souls : women, religion and mental illness in the Victorian asylum /
Peschier, Diana,
Lost souls : women, religion and mental illness in the Victorian asylum / Diana Peschier. - 1 online resource (xv, 203 pages, 8 pages of plates) : portraits
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-196) and index.
Chapter One: Introduction: The Sin of Eve and Dangerous Emotions -- Chapter Two: Wives, Mothers and Abuse of Women in the Asylum -- Chapter Three: Women with Religious Excitement -- Chapter Four: Evangelical Sunday School Teaching: Lessons for Girls -- Chapter Five: Physical Illness -- Chapter Six: Asylums and Madness Mirrored in Nineteenth-Century Literature -- Chapter Seven: Male Asylum Patients -- Epilogue -- Bibliography and Sources.
"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 madness became so closely associated with femininity. Her research reveals the plight of women incarcerated in 19th century asylums, how they became patients, and the ways they were perceived by their family, medical professionals, society and by themselves."--
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1800-1899
Women--Mental health--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Mentally ill women--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Women--Mental health services--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Psychiatric hospitals--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Women--Institutional care--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Women.
Mental Disorders--history
Women
History, 19th Century
Femmes--Sant�e mentale--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--19e si�ecle.
Femmes vivant avec un trouble de sant�e mentale--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--19e si�ecle.
Femmes--Services de sant�e mentale--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--19e si�ecle.
Femmes.
M�edecine--Histoire--19e si�ecle.
women (female humans)
Care of the mentally ill.
Women
Mentally ill women
Psychiatric hospitals
Women--Institutional care
Women--Mental health
Women--Mental health services
United Kingdom
Great Britain
History
RC451.4.W6 / P484 2019eb
362.20820941
WM 11 FA1
Lost souls : women, religion and mental illness in the Victorian asylum / Diana Peschier. - 1 online resource (xv, 203 pages, 8 pages of plates) : portraits
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-196) and index.
Chapter One: Introduction: The Sin of Eve and Dangerous Emotions -- Chapter Two: Wives, Mothers and Abuse of Women in the Asylum -- Chapter Three: Women with Religious Excitement -- Chapter Four: Evangelical Sunday School Teaching: Lessons for Girls -- Chapter Five: Physical Illness -- Chapter Six: Asylums and Madness Mirrored in Nineteenth-Century Literature -- Chapter Seven: Male Asylum Patients -- Epilogue -- Bibliography and Sources.
"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 madness became so closely associated with femininity. Her research reveals the plight of women incarcerated in 19th century asylums, how they became patients, and the ways they were perceived by their family, medical professionals, society and by themselves."--
1786736608 9781786736604 9781786726544 1786726548 9781788318082 1788318080 1788318072 9781788318075
10.5040/9781788318082
9781786726544 codeMantra
GBB9J2671 bnb
019625419 Uk
1800-1899
Women--Mental health--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Mentally ill women--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Women--Mental health services--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Psychiatric hospitals--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Women--Institutional care--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Women.
Mental Disorders--history
Women
History, 19th Century
Femmes--Sant�e mentale--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--19e si�ecle.
Femmes vivant avec un trouble de sant�e mentale--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--19e si�ecle.
Femmes--Services de sant�e mentale--Histoire--Grande-Bretagne--19e si�ecle.
Femmes.
M�edecine--Histoire--19e si�ecle.
women (female humans)
Care of the mentally ill.
Women
Mentally ill women
Psychiatric hospitals
Women--Institutional care
Women--Mental health
Women--Mental health services
United Kingdom
Great Britain
History
RC451.4.W6 / P484 2019eb
362.20820941
WM 11 FA1