Voices from the Asylum: Four French Women Writers, 1850-1920

by Susannah Wilson

Voices from the Asylum is a fascinating investigation of the lives of four women incarcerated in French psychiatric hospitals in the second half of the nineteenth century. The renowned sculptor (and mistress of Rodin) Camille Claudel, the musician Hersilie Rouy, the feminist activist Marie Esquiron, and the self-proclaimed mystic and eccentric Pauline Lair Lamotte, all left first-hand accounts of their experiences. These rare and unsettling documents...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199579350
• ISBN13: 9780199579358
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.6"