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Wise, Sarah (Writer on English history)

Inconvenient people : lunacy, liberty and the mad-doctors in Victorian England / Sarah Wise. - London : Vintage books, 2012. - xxii, 473 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical notes (p. [409]-438), bibliography (p. [439]-447) and index.

1. Being "burrowsed" -- 2. The attorney-general of all Her Majesty's madmen -- 3. The Alleged Lunatics' Friend Society -- 4. "Oh hail, holy love!" -- 5. "If I had been poor, they would have left me alone" -- 6. "Gaskell is single-patient hunting" -- 7. The woman in yellow -- 8. Juries in revolt -- 9. Dialoguing with the unseen -- 10. "Be sure you don't fall, Georgie!" -- Epilogue: The savage new century.

ISBN: 9780099541868 1847921124 (hbk.)

LCCN: 2012551918

Nat. Bib. No.: GBB224469 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 016045371 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Psychiatry--Methodology--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Psychiatric hospitals--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Mentally ill--Commitment and detention--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Insanity (Law)--History--Great Britain--19th century.
Psychiatric hospital patients--History--Great Britain--19th century.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
London (England)--Social conditions--19th century.

LC Class. No.: RC450.G7 / W58 2012

Dewey Class. No.: 344.4104409034 / W812