The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox: Historical Context

Some resources for research

Psychiatric institutions:

Websites:

http://www.lib.uwo.ca/archives/virtualexhibits/londonasylum/index.html(on London asylum)

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/diseases/debates.html (history of mental institutions in the US)

http://www.berkshirerecordoffice.org.uk/collections/fairmile/fairmile_story_2.htm (on one Victorian asylum)

http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/paper/jacksonmark.html (review of the book Mental Disability in Victorian England)

http://community.livejournal.com/victorianlife/103982.html (another book review)

Books:

The Age of Madness: The History of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization. RC439.S96

The Confinement of the Insane: International Perspectives 1800-1965. RC439.C737 2003

Asylums: Essays on the Social Situations of Mental Patients. RC 439.G58

Women and psychiatric treatment:

Websites:

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~ulrich/femhist/madness.shtml (on the history of women and treatment for madness)

http://www.thetimechamber.co.uk/Sites/Hospital/History/Background.php (on British asylums. This is not strictly speaking an academic website but the research looks good. There is a section specifically addressing the treatment of men vs. women.)

http://minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/6687 (click on the link to the pdf. An article in an undergraduate student journal about women’s admissions to asylums.

http://www2.ivcc.edu/gen2002/Twentieth_Century.htm (changing gender roles in the 20^th century; not specifically about mental health care)

Books:

The Female Malady. RC451.4.W6S56

Women of the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls. RC451.4.W6 W6567

Women and Madness. RC451.4.W6C47 2005