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Inconvenient people : lunacy, liberty and the mad-doctors in Victorian England / Sarah Wise.

By: Publication details: London : Vintage books, 2012.Description: xxii, 473 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780099541868
  • 1847921124 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 344.4104409034 23 W812
LOC classification:
  • RC450.G7 W58 2012
Contents:
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.
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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.