Women in the mid-19th century suffering from common mental health conditions were condemned to the asylum to live in appalling conditions.

In the mid- to late 1800s, insane asylums served as catch-all facilities for violent and difficult women. But were they really criminals? Or even crazy? Or just rebelling against the social ...

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 ...

The £107m redevelopment of a derelict Victorian asylum, which has been long plagued by arson and vandalism, is finally moving ahead. Denbighshire council's cabinet met on Tuesday to approve the ...

The Woman In White is a dark, gothic tale on Netflix that has been a terrifying period drama fans. With its eerie Victorian homes and moody landscapes, viewers have been keen to know where the ...

Women seeking asylum should not be turned away Unknown to many Americans is the fact that among the migrants arriving at our southern border are women who have fled rape, mutilation, kidnappings ...

“Out of the Shadows,” by Emily Midorikawa, features six 19th-century women Spiritualists who defied gender norms to command public attention.

Frustration 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.

The Sensation Novelist Who Exposed the Plight of Victorian Women Wilkie Collins drew on his legal training to dramatize the inequality caused by outdated laws ...

The unsolved mystery of the Borden murders brought national attention to a prim Victorian woman and raised the specter of the female criminal.

Eastwood Park – a women’s prison in Gloucestershire – was given the lowest possible safety rating, in a report published today by the Inspectorate of Prisons.