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1st Edition

Women, Madness and Spiritualism

Edited By Bridget Bennett, Helen Nicholson, Roy Porter

880 Pages

by Routledge

Description

This set reproduces seminal writings by three exceptional nineteenth-century women. Georgina Weldon, Louisa Lowe and Susan Willis Fletcher were certified as insane by the Victorian medical establishment and were threatened with incarceration for their eccentric and transgressive behaviour. All three were remarkably resourceful and very successfully manipulated the sensationalist press to expose... Read more

Table of Contents

Volume I: Georgina Weldon

Introduction by Roy Porter: 'Georgina Weldon and the Mad Doctors'

1. Georgina Weldon, The History of My Orphanage: Or, The Outpourings of an Alleged Lunatic (London: Mrs Weldon, 1878)

2. Georgina Weldon, How I Escaped the Mad Doctors (London: Mrs Weldon, 1882)

3. Georgina Weldon, The Ghastly Consequences of Living in Charles Dickens' House (London: [n.p.], 1882). Introductory notes to Georgina Weldon's further writings, by Helen Nicholson

4. Georgina Weldon, Death-Blow to Spiritualism - Is It? Dr. Slade, Messrs. Maskelyne & Cooke, and Mr. W. Morton (London: Music and Art Association, 1882). 5. Georgina Weldon, ed. Social Salvation (1883-1884). Volume II: Louisa Lowe

Introduction by Helen Nicholson

1. Louise Lowe, The Bastilles of England, or The lunacy Laws at Work (London: Crookenden and Co., 1883)

Volume III: Susan Willis Fletcher Introduction by Bridget Bennett

1. Susan Fletcher, Twelve Months in an English Prison (Boston: Lee and Shephard; New York: Charles T. Dillingham, 1884)

Editor(s)

Biography

Bridget Bennett, Helen Nicholson, Roy Porter

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