Asylum: Inside the Pauper Lunatic Asylums

by Mark Davis

A stranger has come
To share my room in the house not right in the head
A girl mad as birds.
--Dylan Thomas, "Love in the Asylum"

With the advent of "care in the community" for the mentally afflicted, the self-contained villages for the apparently insane have now been consigned to the history books. These once bustling Victorian institutions were commonly known in the 19th and early 20th centuries as the "county asylum" or the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1445695219
• ISBN13: 9781445695211
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.4" x 9.1"