Inconvenient People (77 page)

subconscious
see
unconscious cerebation

Suffolk 94, 95, 121

Sussex County Asylum 317

Sussex House Asylum 278–9, 281, 282, 332, 350, 351, 352, 399, 402

Sutherland, Sir Alexander (alienist) 149, 195, 196, 245, 280, 283, 403

Swansea 95, 98, 121

syphilis 283, 336

Taunton 97, 222, 223, 226, 229

Tavistock House, Bloomsbury 327–8, 329, 330, 331, 336, 337, 338–9, 342, 343, 344, 345, 346, 349, 351, 354, 355, 357, 358, 359, 366, 372

tea dealing/trading 1, 2, 5, 6, 7–8, 11, 16, 23, 25, 47

telegraphy 270

Tennyson, Lord Alfred 353

Thackeray, William Makepeace 80, 81, 138, 196, 202–3, 333

Thesiger, Sir Frederick (lawyer and Lord Chancellor) 113, 235

Thomas, Reverend George (Agapemonite preacher) 97–8, 99, 100, 119, 125

Thomson, Dr Frederick Hale 226–9, 234–5, 236, 243

Ticehurst Asylum 47, 53–61, 403

Tichborne Claimant (Arthur Orton) 353–4

Tory party/politics/Tories 42, 61–2, 73, 77, 90, 216–17, 221–2, 280, 375

Tothill Fields bridewell 69

Tottenham, Anne (Chancery patient) 84, 282, 287

Tow’s Asylum, Battersea, South London 69

‘traverse’ of a lunacy inquisition finding (setting it aside) 174–5

Trenchard, Henry (private detective) 223

Tue Brook Asylum, Liverpool 260

Tuke, Dr Thomas Harrington (alienist and asylum proprietor) 247–8, 273, 280, 283, 405

Tuke, William (Quaker founder of the York Retreat) 47

Turner, Charles (husband of Mary Jane) 252–5, 257, 258, 259, 261–2, 263, 264, 267

Turner, Mary Jane (alleged lunatic) 252–67, 274, 286, 287, 312

Tuthill, Dr George 19

‘tutoring’ lunatics to suppress delusions 137, 162, 260, 261, 262

unconscious cerebration 317–18

‘unsoundness of mind’ as a legal and medical concept 22–3, 155, 158, 159, 172–3, 175, 296, 314–15, 356, 365, 379–80

urban life cited as cause of breakdown 49

Vanity Fair
80, 138

Victoria, Queen 86, 88, 90, 221

visits to an asylum patient, legal rights and practical difficulties 19, 104, 141, 154–5, 259, 271, 307, 315, 399

voluntary admissions/patients 371, 375, 379, 390

Wakley, Thomas (Middlesex coroner and founder of
The Lancet
) 78, 183–4

Wales 190, 192, 222, 266, 268, 286, 314, 336

Walpole, Spencer Horatio (Home Secretary and relation of John Perceval) 286

Walton Lodge Asylum, Liverpool 397–9

‘wandering lunatics’ 89, 190–1

Warburton’s asylums, East London xx, xxi, 69, 71, 72, 397–8, 400

Watts, George Frederic 333, 334

‘weak-mindedness’ 22, 68, 116, 281, 380
see also
idiocy; imbecility; ‘unsoundness of mind’

Wedgwood, Josiah, MP 382–3, 384

Weldon, Georgina 325–74, 375, 376, 378

considered scandalous by Society 334, 337–40, 341, 342

declared sane 352–3, 365–6

as described on lunacy statement/certificates 350, 366

early life and marriage 332–6

failure of the marriage and ensuing bitterness 326, 330, 331, 336, 337, 342–3, 359

father’s insanity and death 335, 340, 348, 364

and feminism/attitude to patriarchy 325, 354, 359–61

found guilty of libel and imprisoned 359, 369

genius for publicity and publicity stunts 353, 355–6, 357, 358, 359, 367–9

impact of her agitation 375, 376

later years and death 372, 373

life at Tavistock House 337–9, 342, 346–7

and Louisa Lowe 329, 330, 331, 332, 357–8, 359

mounts her own legal actions 353–4, 358, 359, 360–6

musical and teaching career 325–6, 327, 333, 336, 337–40, 342, 343, 359, 369

personal charisma and sexual appeal 325, 333, 353, 356–7, 358, 366

and her pets 326, 327, 338, 342, 366, 372

public support for 353, 354, 356, 359, 369, 378

recommendations to improve lunacy laws 354–5

relationship with Angèle Ménier 341–2, 343, 366, 372

relationship with her family 332, 334, 335, 340–1, 344, 346, 353, 363–4, 372

social activism 339

and spiritualism 325, 326, 327, 328, 339, 342, 344, 347, 348, 350, 356, 357–8, 359, 365–6, 372

Wellington, Duke of 8, 18, 41–2, 69

Westminster Hall 111

Weymouth 95, 96, 99, 106, 121, 125

Whigs
see
Liberal members of parliament

Whitehall 55, 62, 77, 80, 88, 90, 105, 122, 179, 301

Wilde, Oscar 377

Wilkes, James (Lunacy Commissioner) 265, 301, 303, 308, 313, 319

Williams, Dr Caleb 260

Wilmot, Dr Thomas 137, 145, 157, 178, 179, 181

Wilson, Dr Duncan Herbert (homeopath) 197

Wiltshire, asylums in 397, 398

Windham, William (alleged lunatic) 283, 284

Winn family of Brentwood, Essex 197–8

Winn, Dr James Michell 346, 351, 366

disguised as ‘Dr Shell’ 325–6, 347

Winslow, Dr Forbes Benignus (alienist and asylum proprietor, 1810–1874) 84, 118–19, 154–5, 157–9, 174–5, 195, 241–3, 245–6, 277, 278–85, 287, 331, 351, 355, 370

assists Chancery lunatic Anne Tottenham 84, 282, 287

breakdown 285

criticised by Dr Charles Lockhart Robertson 285, 351

criticised in Dickens’s magazine
All the Year Round
284

defender of Catherine Cumming’s sanity 154–5, 157–9, 174–5, 282

defends asylum incarceration as best curative measure 118–19

early life and career 282

involvement in the case of William Windham 283–5

and the Lytton case 241–3, 355

and the plea of diminished responsibility 280, 282, 370

religious views 280

and the Reverend Leach case 278–85, 287

Winslow, Dr Lyttleton Stuart Forbes (son of the above, 1844–1913) 330, 331–2, 346, 347–52, 355, 358–72, 375, 379

allegations of misdiagnosis for profit 348–9

as a ‘criminal profiler’ 370

becomes a supporter of Mrs Weldon 369

contravenes 1890 Lunacy Act 369–70

disapproved of by other alienists and the medical press 369

disguised as ‘Dr Stewart’ 325–6, 347

founds hospital for nervous disorders among the poor 371, 372, 375–6

loses his asylums business 362–3, 369

sued by Georgina Weldon 360, 361, 362–6

therapeutic regime at his asylums 351–2

views on spiritualism 347, 348, 350, 359, 365, 366, 371

wives

confined by their husbands 198–207, 250–1, 354, 405, 406

all property and income owned by husband 94, 97, 210

no separate civil-law identity from their husbands 291, 312–13, 345–6, 360

who confined their husbands xix, 68–70, 76, 89–90, 272–3, 395, 396, 398, 406–8
see also
gender; marriage settlements; Married Women’s Property Acts

Woman in White, The
xvii, 80, 149, 198, 199, 199n, 206, 249, 312

women and insanity
see
gender

women’s rights and campaigners for xix, 198–9, 214, 250–1, 305, 312–13, 321, 359–60, 377

Wood, Julia (alleged lunatic) 401

workhouses 61, 75, 118, 405

Wyke House Asylum 229, 230–2, 234, 242, 399

Wynter, Dr Andrew 409

York 254, 260, 265–6

York Castle 252, 259

York County Asylum xx, 257

York Minster Yard 256

York Retreat asylum 47, 48, 260

York Royal Station Hotel 255, 260, 265

York House Asylum, Battersea, South London 137, 138, 139–40, 141, 144, 146, 147, 148, 152, 178, 180–1, 182, 183–4

Young, G. M. (historian) 252

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