Sent to the asylum: The Victorian women locked up because they were suffering from stress, post natal depression and anxiety By WENDY WALLACE Published: 17:00 EDT, 12 May 2012 | Updated: 07:09 EDT ...

Few records were kept of Marks’ 30 years in prison and at the asylum. The little we know about the real Grace Marks comes from Life in the Clearing Versus the Bush, a book by Susanna Moodie, an ...

THESE haunting pictures capture tormented patients locked up at a Victorian lunatic asylum where they were treated for “hysteria”. The eerie images show sunken-eyed women at the Salpetriere ...

In the 19th Century women were thought to be intrinsically mad by virtue of their femaleness, which made them vulnerable, and women outnumbered men in Victorian asylums almost two to one. If Jane Eyre ...

VICTORIAN asylums have long been places of mystery, inspiring folk tales and horror stories. Anyone growing up near the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum in Menston - which later became High Royds ...

Cry Havoc Theater Company is launching its first fully immersive show this summer, Committed: Mad Women of the Asylum.The youth theater took inspiration from the first-person accounts of women who ...

OUT OF THE SHADOWS Six Visionary Victorian Women in Search of a Public Voice By Emily Midorikawa. Small groups gathered for séances, some in ornately furnished parlors, others in humbler settings ...

By Elizabeth Hand. Morrow. 364 pp. $24.95 We know the images created by the pre-Raphaelite painters of Victorian England too well. Seen through modern eyes, the ethereal femmes fatales beloved of ...

THESE haunting pictures capture tormented patients locked up at a Victorian lunatic asylum where they were treated for “hysteria”. The eerie images show sunken-eyed women at the Salpetriere ...