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Getting Out of the Asylum in the Nineteenth-Century
The confinement of the insane in purpose-built institutions spanned the modern western world, between 1800 and 1914
Historical Deadly Asylums in the United Kingdom
Suicidal patients constituted a significant proportion of the annual admissions to nineteenth-century public lunatic asylums in the United Kingdom.
‘The Opal,’ A Public Literary Voice From The Mentally Insane
A small number of the so-called “mad” were able to work within the confines of the asylum to create a public literary voice for themselves,…
Insane Literature in Asylums during the Nineteenth-Century
In the nineteenth-century, United States of America mental institutions were seen as either the guardians or the adversaries of science, compassion, and liberty.