Victorian Asylum

Name: Victorian Asylum
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ISBN: 9780747806691

ISBN-10: 0747806691

ISBN-13: 9780747806691

Edition: 2008

Authors: Sarah Rutherford

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The Victorian lunatic asylum has a special place in history. Dreaded and reviled by many, these nineteenth-century buildings provide a unique window on how the Victorians housed and treated the mentally ill. Despite initially good intentions, they became warehouses for society's outcasts at a time when cures were far fewer than hoped for. Isolated, hidden in the countryside and surrounded by high walls, they were eventually distributed throughout Britain, the Empire, the Continent and North America, with 120 or so in England and Wales alone. Now the memory of them is fading, and many of the buildings have gone or are threatened. Most have been closed as hospitals since the 1980s and either…

Book details

List price: $12.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication date: 9/23/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 56
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.00" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English



Introduction


Early Asylums: from Bedlam to moral therapy


Building the asylum to cure


Life in the asylum


Specialist asylums


The last days of the asylum


Further reading


Places to visit


Index