Read Inconvenient People Online
Authors: Sarah Wise
Burrows, Elizabeth Mary, ‘Enigmatic Icon: A Biographical Reappraisal of a Victorian Alienist, John Conolly MD, 1794–1866’, PhD thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 1999
Burrows, George Man,
A Letter to Sir Henry Halford, Bt, KCH, President of the Royal College of Physicians &c, Touching Some Points of the Evidence, and Observations of Counsel, on a Commission of Lunacy on Mr Edward Davies
, 1830; and
Commentaries on the Causes, Forms, Symptoms and Treatment, Moral and Medical, of Insanity
, 1828
Busfield, Joan, ‘“The Female Malady?” Men, Women and Madness in Nineteenth-Century Britain’,
Sociology
, February 1994
Carlson, Eric T. and Dain, Norman, ‘The Meaning of Moral Insanity’,
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
, vol. 36, 1962
Collie, Michael,
Henry Maudsley: Victorian Psychiatrist, A Bibliographical Study
, 1988
Collins, Wilkie,
The Woman in White
, 1860; and
Fatal Fortune
, 1874
Conolly, John,
A Remonstrance with The Lord Chief Baron Touching the Case Nottidge versus Ripley
, 1849
Crichton-Browne, James,
What the Doctor Thought
, 1930
Darwin, Bernard,
The World That Fred Made, An Autobiography
, 1955
Devey, Louisa,
Life of Rosina, Lady Lytton, with Extracts from her MS Autobiography
, 1887
Dickens, Charles,
The Letters of Charles Dickens
, 12 vols, vol. 6, 1850–52, and vol. 8, 1856–58, the Pilgrim edition, ed. Madeline House, Graham Storey and Nina Burgis, Oxford, 1988 and 1995 respectively
Dixon, William Hepworth,
Spiritual Wives
, 2 vols, 1868
Doggett, Maeve E.,
Marriage, Wife-Beating and the Law in Victorian England
, 1992
English Reports, 1220–1867, an electronic database of legal cases
Escott, T. H. S.,
Edward Bulwer, First Baron Lytton of Knebworth, A Social, Personal and Political Monograph
, 1910
Finnane, Mark,
Insanity and the Insane in Post-Famine Ireland
, 1981
Fox, Annie,
Brislington House Quarterly News, Centenary Number
, Bristol, 1904
Fox, Francis Ker, and Fox, Charles,
The History and Present State of Brislington House near Bristol
, Bristol, 1836; and
Report Respecting the Past and Present State of Brislington House
, Bristol, 1865
Foyster, Elizabeth, ‘At the Limits of Liberty: Married Women and Confinement in Eighteenth-Century England’,
Continuity and Change
, no. 17, 2002
Frank, Justin A., ‘Non-Restraint and Robert Gardiner Hill’,
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
, vol. 41, no. 2, 1967
Gaskell, E., ‘More About Spontaneous Combustion’,
The Dickensian
, January 1973
Gilbert, Sandra and Gubar, Susan,
The Madwoman in the Attic
, Yale, 1979
Grierson, Edward,
Storm Bird: The Strange Life of Georgina Weldon
, 1959
Hall, Samuel Carter,
Retrospect of a Long Life
, 2 vols, vol. 1, 1883
Hamilcar, Marcia,
Legally Dead: Experiences during 17 Weeks’ Detention in a Private Asylum
, 1910
Hanrahan, David C.,
The Assassination of the Prime Minister: John Bellingham and the Murder of Spencer Perceval
, Stroud, 2008
Hansard, Luke James,
What Are To Be the Tendencies of the Community of the British Nation? To Sanity? or To Insanity? A Question
, 1845
Hare, Edward and Walk, Alexander, ‘Psychiatry in the 1870s: Kilvert’s Mad Folk’,
Psychiatric Bulletin
, no. 3, 1979
Haslam, John,
Observations on Madness and Melancholy
, 1809
Hervey, Nicholas, ‘A Slavish Bowing Down: The Lunacy Commission and the Psychiatric Profession, 1845–1860’, in W. F. Bynum, Roy Porter and Michael Shepherd (eds),
The Anatomy of Madness
, vol. 2, 1985; and ‘Advocacy or Folly: The Alleged Lunatics’ Friend Society, 1845–1863’,
Medical History
, no. 30, 1986
Hodder, Edwin,
The Life and Work of the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury
, 3 vols, 1887
Holcombe, Lee,
Wives and Property: Reform of the Married Women’s Property Law in Nineteenth-Century England
, Oxford, 1983
Homberger, Margaret, ‘Wrongful Confinement and Victorian Psychiatry, 1840–1880’, PhD thesis, University of London, 2001
‘The Important Lunacy Case of Catherine Cumming’,
Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology
, vol. 5, April 1852
An Inquiry into the State of Mind of W. F. Windham Esquire of Felbrigg Hall, Norfolk
, 1862
Jackson, Mark,
The Borderland of Imbecility: Medicine, Society and the Fabrication of the Feeble Mind in Late-Victorian and Edwardian England
, Manchester, 2000
Jenkins, Elizabeth,
Harriet
, 1934
Lewis, Paul, ‘Walter’s Walk: Walter Hartright meets the Woman in White’, 2010
Linklater, Andro,
Why Spencer Perceval Had to Die
, 2012
Lowe, Louisa,
The Bastilles of England; Or, the Lunacy Laws at Work
, 1883; and
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?
, no. 1, ‘Report of a Case Heard in Queen’s Bench, November 22 1872’, 1873; and no. 3,
How an Old Woman Obtained Passive Writing and The Outcome Thereof
, 1873
Lytton, Victor Alexander,
Life of Edward Bulwer, First Lord Lytton
, 2 vols, 1913
MacKenzie, Charlotte, ‘A Family Asylum: A History of the Private Madhouse at Ticehurst in Sussex, 1792–1917’, PhD thesis, University of London, 1986; and
Psychiatry for the Rich: A History of Ticehurst Private Asylum, 1792–1917
, 1992
McCandless, Peter, ‘Insanity and Society: A Study of the English Lunacy Reform Movement, 1815–1870’, PhD thesis, University of Wisconsin, 1974
McWilliam, Rowan,
The Tichborne Claimant: A Victorian Sensation
, 2006
Mellett, D. J., ‘Bureaucracy and Mental Illness: The Commissioners in Lunacy 1845–90’, in
Medical History
, no. 25, 1981
Mill, John Stuart,
On Liberty
, 1859; and
The Principles of Political Economy, With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy
, Book 5, 1862 (reissued in 1900 by Great World Classics)
Miller, Judy and Torrey, E. Fuller, ‘The Capture of the Snark’,
Richmond Review
, 2001
Mitchell, Leslie,
Bulwer Lytton: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Man of Letters
, 2003
Mitchell, Sally,
Frances Power Cobbe: Victorian Feminist, Journalist, Reformer
, 2004
Mitford, John,
Description of the Crimes and Horrors of Warburton’s Madhouse
, 1823
Mulock, Thomas,
British Lunatic Asylums, Public and Private
, 1858
Oppenheim, Janet,
The Other World: Spiritualism and Psychical Research in England
,
1850–1914
, 1985
Owen, Alex,
The Darkened Room: Women, Power and Spiritualism in Late Nineteenth-Century England
, 1989
Paternoster, Richard,
The Madhouse System
, 1841
Perceval, John,
A Narrative of the Treatment Experienced by a Gentleman during a State of Mental Derangement; Designed to Explain the Causes and the Nature of Insanity and to Expose the Injudicious Conduct Pursued towards many Unfortunate Sufferers under that Calamity
, vol. 1, 1838, and vol. 2, 1840. The second volume is available online, as is an abridged version of both volumes,
Perceval’s Narrative: A Patient’s Account of His Psychosis, 1830–1832
, edited by Gregory Bateson, 1962;
A Letter to the Secretary of State for the Home Department Upon the Unjust and Pettifogging Conduct of the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy, in the Case of a Gentleman Lately under their Surveillance
, 1844;
Letters to the Rt Hon Sir James Graham, Bt, and to Other Gentlemen upon the Reform of the Law affecting the Treatment of Persons Alleged to be of Unsound Mind
, 1846; and
The Case of Dr Peithman LLD
, 1855
Plumbridge, J. L.,
Slavery in England: An Account of the Manner in Which Persons Without Trial are Condemned to Imprisonment for Life
, circa 1876
Prichard, James Cowles,
Treatise on Insanity and Other Disorders Affecting the Mind
, 1835
Purnell, Purnell B.,
Report of the County Chairman to the Gloucestershire Epiphany Court of Quarter Sessions
, 1849
Ramsey, Sherwood,
Historic Battersea
, 1913
Ray, G. N.,
The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray
, 4 vols, 1945
Reade, Charles,
Hard Cash
, 1863
Robins, Joseph,
Fools and Mad: A History of the Insane in Ireland
, Dublin, 1986
Robinson, Kenneth,
Wilkie Collins, A Biography
, 1951
Saumarez, Richard,
The Laws of Lunacy, Especially as they Affect the Lunatic Wards of Chancery
, 1858; and
The Laws of Lunacy and Their Crimes, as They Affect all Classes of Society
, 1859
Saunders, Janet, ‘Quarantining the Weak-Minded: Psychiatric Definitions of Degeneracy and the Late Victorian Asylum’, in
The Anatomy of Madness
, vol. 3, 1988
Savage, Gail, ‘“The Wilful Communication of a Loathsome Disease”: Marital Conflict and Venereal Disease in Victorian England’,
Victorian Studies
, vol. 34, 1990
Schweiso, Joshua John, ‘Deluded Inmates, Frantic Ravers and Communists: A Sociological Study of the Agapemone, a Sect of Victorian Apocalyptic Millennarians’, PhD thesis, University of Reading, 1994; and ‘Religious Fanaticism and Wrongful Confinement in Victorian England’,
Social History of Medicine
, vol. 9, no. 2, August 1996
Scull, Andrew,
Museums of Madness: The Social Organization of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century England
, 1979; ‘A Convenient Place to Get Rid of Inconvenient People: the Victorian Lunatic Asylum’ in King, A. D. (ed.),
Buildings and Society
, 1980; and ‘A Brilliant Career? John Conolly and Victorian Psychiatry’,
Victorian Studies
, vol. 27, Winter 1984
Shelford, Leonard,
A Practical Treatise on the Law Concerning Lunatics, Idiots and Persons of Unsound Mind
, 1833; 2nd edn 1847
Showalter, Elaine,
The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture, 1830–1980
, 1985
Smith, Leonard, ‘A Gentleman’s Mad-Doctor in Georgian England: Edward Long Fox and Brislington House’,
History of Psychiatry
, 19, no. 2, June 2008
Spongberg, Mary,
Feminizing Venereal Disease: The Body of the Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century Medical Discourse
, New York, 1997
Super, R. H.,
Walter Savage Landor: A Biography
, 1957
Sutherland, John,
Victorian Fiction: Writers, Publishers, Readers
, 1995
Suzuki, Akihito,
Madness at Home: The Psychiatrist, the Patient and the Family in England
,
1820–1860
, 2006
Taylor, D. J.,
Thackeray
, 1999
Thompson, Brian,
A Monkey among Crocodiles: The Life, Loves and Lawsuits of Mrs Georgina Weldon
, 2000
Treherne, Philip,
A Plaintiff in Person: The Life of Mrs Weldon
, 1923
Turner, Trevor, ‘Henry Maudsley, Philosopher and Entrepreneur’, in Andrew Scull (ed.),
The Anatomy of Madness
, vol. 3, 1988
Weldon, Georgina,
The Ghastly Consequences of Living in Charles Dickens’ House
, 1880;
The History of My Orphanage
, 1878;
Death Blow to Spiritualism – Is It? Dr Slade, Messrs Maskelyne & Cooke and Mr W. Morton
, 1882;
How I Escaped The Mad Doctors
, 1879, all reprinted in a single volume,
Women, Madness and Spiritualism
, edited by Roy Porter, Helen Nicholson and Bridget Bennett, vol. 1,
Georgina Weldon and Louisa Lowe
, 2003; and
Musical Reform
, 1875
Westwood, Louise, ‘Avoiding the Asylum: Pioneering Work in Mental Health Care, 1890–1939’, PhD thesis, University of Sussex, 1999
Whittington-Egan, Molly,
Doctor Forbes Winslow: Defender of the Insane
, 2000
Winslow, Forbes Benignus, ‘The Lord Chief Baron and the Nottidge Case’,
Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology
, vol. 2, October 1849;
On the Incubation of Insanity
, 1846; and
The Plea of Insanity in Criminal Cases
, 1843
Winslow, Lyttlelton Stewart Forbes,
Recollections of Forty Years, Being an Account at First Hand of some Famous Criminal Lunacy Cases, English and American
, 1910; and
Spiritualistic Madness
, 1877
Wise, Thomas J. and Symington, J. A. (eds),
The Brontës: Their Lives, Friendships and Correspondence
, Oxford, 4 vols, 1932
Wynter, Andrew, ‘Non-Restraint in the Treatment of the Insane’, in
Edinburgh Review
, vol. 131, 1870
Young, G. M.,
Victorian England: Portrait of an Age
, 1936
Roberts, A., 1997, Social Science History, Middlesex University, London,
www.studymore.org.uk
The Economic History Services website provides a translation between nineteenth-century pounds, shillings and pence and today’s sums,
www.eh.net
The Letters of Thomas Carlyle and family,
carlyleletters.dukejournals.org
Charles Darwin’s correspondence,
www.darwinproject.ac.uk
Inverness Lodge local memories,
www.bhsproject.co.uk/prop_invernesslodge.shtml
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