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

Author: Wise, Sarah.

Imprint:London : Bodley Head, 2012.

Descriptionxxii, 473 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

Note: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.

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

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