Скачать или смотреть Committed to an Insane Asylum - For Asking Too Many Questions

In the autumn of 1870, a clergyman's wife disappeared from her lodgings and entered a world of locked doors and intercepted letters. Louisa Lowe had committed no crime, harmed no one, yet found herself confined in private asylums for nearly two years.
This is the story of how a woman of sound mind vanished into the Victorian lunacy system, and how she fought to make her voice heard.


Victorian asylum, wrongful confinement, Louisa Lowe, lunacy law reform, 19th century mental health, proprietary madhouse, Brislington House, Commissioners in Lunacy, Victorian women's rights, medical certificates, asylum reform history, Victorian England social history, historical psychiatry, wrongful commitment, institutional confinement