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1. Women, Madness and Spiritualism

   Edited by Bridget Bennett, Helen Nicholson, Roy Porter

   Series: History of Feminism

   This set reproduces seminal writings by three exceptional nineteenth-century women. Georgina Weldon, Louisa Lowe and Susan Willis Fletcher were certified as insane by the Victorian medical establishment and were threatened with incarceration for their eccentric and transgressive behaviour. All...

   Published June 25th 2003 by Routledge