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 ...

Their blood froze with his when he felt the touch of a hand on his shoulder and turned to see a young woman dressed entirely in white, who had just escaped from an asylum. Thus began a novel that ...

Victorian propriety seemed to shield this middle-class woman from the charge of period-induced insanity. The prosecution still settled on a gender -based attack. Lizzie, as a woman, was said to be ...

Women soon began to seek a more independent life. The idea of femininity in the Victorian era was encapsulated in the idea of the 'woman's mission', but this passive role could not be tolerated ...

Conditions in women’s prison Eastwood Park like ‘a Victorian asylum’, ... Three women died there last year, and inspectors found rates of self-harm had more than doubled since 2019.