BROADMOOR WOMEN
Thomas, Kim E
Tales from Britains First Criminal Lunatic Asylum. Broadmoor Womentells the stories of seven women treated in Broadmoor Hospital an asylum for criminal lunatics Explores Victorian medical understanding of what today would be considered mental illness Using patient files and historical records from Broadmoor archive, the author pieces together seven different lives of women across Victorian societyA moving account of how ordinary Victorian life...