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| Author | : Kim E Thomas |
| Publisher | : Pen and Sword History |
| Total Pages | : 202 |
| Release | : 2022-05-19 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1526794292 |
Broadmoor, Britainâs first asylum for criminal lunatics, was founded in 1863. In the first years of its existence, one in five patients was female. Most had been tried for terrible crimes and sent to Broadmoor after being found not guilty by virtue of insanity. Many had murdered their own children, while others had killed husbands or other family members. Drawing on Broadmoorâs rich archive, this book tells the story of seven of those women, ranging from a farmerâs daughter in her 20s who shot dead her own mother to a middle-class housewife who drowned her baby daughter. Their moving stories give a glimpse into what nineteenth-century life was like for ordinary women, often struggling with poverty, domestic abuse and repeated childbearing. For some, Broadmoor, with its regime of plain food, fresh air and garden walks, was a respite from the hardships of their previous life. Others were desperate to return to their families. All but one of the women whose stories are recounted in this book recovered and were released. Their bout of insanity was temporary. Yet the causes of their condition were poorly understood and the treatment rudimentary. As well as providing an in-depth look at the lives of women in Victorian England, the book offers a fascinating insight into the medical professionâs emerging understanding of the causes and treatment of mental illness.
| Author | : Mark Stevens |
| Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 2013-06-19 |
| Genre | : True Crime |
| ISBN | : 1783462361 |
“A fascinating insight into the country’s most famous asylum for criminals” which reveals Victorian England’s care and management of the mentally ill (Your Family Tree). On 27 May 1863, three coaches pulled up at the gates of a new asylum, built amongst the tall, dense pines of Windsor Forest. Broadmoor’s first patients had arrived. In Broadmoor Revealed, Mark Stevens writes about what life was like for the criminally insane, over one hundred years ago. From fresh research into the Broadmoor archives, Mark has uncovered the lost lives of patients whose mental illnesses led them to become involved in crime. Discover the five women who went on to become mothers in Broadmoor, giving birth to new life when three of them had previously taken it. Find out how several Victorian immigrants ended their hopeful journeys to England in madness and disaster. And follow the numerous escapes, actual and attempted, as the first doctors tried to assert control over the residents. As well as bringing the lives of forgotten patients to light, this thrilling book reveals new perspectives on some of the hospital’s most famous Victorian residents: Edward Oxford, the bar boy who shot at Queen Victoria. Richard Dadd, the brilliant artist and murderer of his own father. William Chester Minor, veteran of the American Civil War who went on to play a key part in the first Oxford English Dictionary. Christiana Edmunds, The Chocolate Cream Poisoner and frustrated lover from Brighton. “Detailed and thoughtful.” —Times Literary Supplement “It challenges preconceptions about mental illness and public reaction to shocking crimes.” —Bracknell Forest Standard
| Author | : Thomas E, Kim |
| Publisher | : Pen and Sword History |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2022-04-30 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781526794260 |
Broadmoor, Britain's first asylum for criminal lunatics, was founded in 1863. In the first years of its existence, one in five patients was female. Most had been tried for terrible crimes and sent to Broadmoor after being found not guilty by virtue of insanity. Many had murdered their own children, while others had killed husbands or other family members. Drawing on Broadmoor's rich archive, this book tells the story of seven of those women, ranging from a farmer's daughter in her 20s who shot dead her own mother to a middle-class housewife who drowned her baby daughter. Their moving stories give a glimpse into what nineteenth-century life was like for ordinary women, often struggling with poverty, domestic abuse and repeated childbearing. For some, Broadmoor, with its regime of plain food, fresh air and garden walks, was a respite from the hardships of their previous life. Others were desperate to return to their families. All but one of the women whose stories are recounted in this book recovered and were released. Their bout of insanity was temporary. Yet the causes of their condition were poorly understood and the treatment rudimentary. As well as providing an in-depth look at the lives of women in Victorian England, the book offers a fascinating insight into the medical profession's emerging understanding of the causes and treatment of mental illness.
| Author | : Lucy Williams |
| Publisher | : Grub Street Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 221 |
| Release | : 2018-06-30 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 1526718634 |
“The fascinating lives of the women who hit hard times . . . investigat[es] the stories behind the faces in the incredible images.” —Al Bawaba Women are among the hardest individuals to trace through the historical record and this is especially true of female offenders who had a vested interest in not wanting to be found. That is why this thought-provoking and accessible handbook by Lucy Williams and Barry Godfrey is of such value. It looks beyond the crimes and the newspaper reports of women criminals in the Victorian era in order to reveal the reality of their personal and penal journeys, and it provides a guide for researchers who are keen to explore this intriguing and neglected subject. The book is split into three sections. There is an introduction outlining the historical context for the study of female crime and punishment, then a series of real-life case studies which show in a vivid way the complexity of female offenders’ lives and follows them through the penal system. The third section is a detailed guide to archival and online sources that readers can consult in order to explore the life-histories of criminal women. The result is a rare combination of academic guide and how-to-do-it manual. It introduces readers to the latest research in the field and it gives them all the information they need to carry out their own research. “The core of the book consists of some 30 case studies of women who went through the system, their offences (from drunkenness and petty theft to murder) and their punishments (from fines or prison to transportation or execution).” —Police History Society
| Author | : Alison C. Pedley |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2023-07-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1350275344 |
Tracing the experiences of women who were designated insane by judicial processes from 1850 to 1900, this book considers the ideas and purposes of incarceration in three dedicated facilities: Bethlem, Fisherton House and Broadmoor. The majority of these patients had murdered, or attempted to murder, their own children but were not necessarily condemned as incurably evil by medical and legal authorities, nor by general society. Alison C. Pedley explores how insanity gave the Victorians an acceptable explanation for these dreadful crimes, and as a result, how admission to a dedicated asylum was viewed as the safest and most human solution for the 'madwomen' as well as for society as a whole. Mothers, Criminal Insanity and the Asylum in Victorian England considers the experiences, treatments and regimes women underwent in an attempt to redeem and rehabilitate them, and return them to into a patriarchal society. It shows how society's views of the institutions and insanity were not necessarily negative or coloured by fear and revulsion, and highlights the changes in attitudes to female criminal lunacy in the second half of the 19th century. Through extensive and detailed research into the three asylums' archives and in legal, governmental, press and genealogical records, this book sheds new light on the views of the patients themselves, and contributes to the historiography of Victorian criminal lunatic asylums, conceptualising them as places of recovery, rehabilitation and restitution.
| Author | : Terry Trainor |
| Publisher | : Lulu.com |
| Total Pages | : 187 |
| Release | : 2012-05-21 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1471714284 |
The Monros were also owners of private 'madhouses' in Hackney and Clerkenwell, and visiting physicians to scores of others. Indeed the family name 'Monro', became synonymous with the very word 'mad-doctor'. Absenteeism of the medical officers at Bethlem led to patients too often being at the mercy of untrained and overstretched staff. This was a central point of the shocking revelations of the Parliamentary enquiry into 'madhouses' in 1815/16. James Monro, and his son John, had already suffered a public scandal with the publication of 'A Treatise on Madness' in 1758. Here, William Battie, physician to the London asylum of St. Luke's, argued that Bethlem and the treatment doled out by the Monros, was antiquated, negligent and abusive. So began the great rivalry between the two establishments
| Author | : Anna Motz |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 315 |
| Release | : 2008-01-07 |
| Genre | : Psychology |
| ISBN | : 1134140037 |
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
| Author | : Charles Bronson |
| Publisher | : Mirage Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 254 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Inmates of institutions |
| ISBN | : 9781902578217 |
He's taken more hostages inside of prison than any UK prisoner. He holds awards for his art and writing. He's had more prison rooftop protests than anyone alive or dead. He's the UK's most feared yet most misunderstood prisoner. In Bronson's own words, find out what makes him tick and explode.
| Author | : Bridget Hutter |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 187 |
| Release | : 2024-11-20 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1040165923 |
Originally published in 1981 Controlling Women critically examines the forms of moral regulation and social control that were exercised over women at the time, arguing that the study of ‘deviant’ women cannot be separated from the study of how all women are defined and controlled. Contributors consider motherhood, prostitutes, abortion, alcoholism, retirement, geriatric patients, Broadmoor patients and legal controls of sexuality in Britain. Social definitions of women and institutional arrangements are used to control women, often in such a way that women see them, not as control, but as part of everyday routines – part of the ‘natural’ order of things. The book identifies some of the ways in which women seek to resist or circumvent these forms of control. The book will still be of interest to all those concerned with the position of women in our society and, more specifically, to students and teachers of sociology, social policy and theories of deviant behaviour. Its focus on images of women and the exercise of control will be of particular interest to professionals concerned with the counselling of women, whether in social, therapeutic or medical fields.
| Author | : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Home Affairs Committee |
| Publisher | : The Stationery Office |
| Total Pages | : 48 |
| Release | : 2006-02-22 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0215027604 |
Prison suicides and Overcrowding : Oral and written evidence, Tuesday 8 November 2005, Ms Frances Crook, Ms Pauline Campbell, Ms Deborah Coles, Ms Juliet Lyon and Mr Geoff Dobson; Rt Hon Baroness Scotland of Asthal QC, Ms Christine Knott, Mr Phil Wheatley
