The Victorian asylum

"Dreaded and reviled by many, Britain's nineteenth-century asylums provide a unique window on how the Victorians housed and treated the mentally ill. Despite initially good intentions, asylums became warehouses for society's outcasts, and cures were few. Hidden in the countryside, they could eventually be found throughout the British Empire, on the Continent and in North America, with 120 or so in England and Wales alone."--Back cover.

Year

2008

Language

English

Series

Shire library -- no. 461

Publisher

Shire

Editions

2

Pages

56

ISBN

9780747806691

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