Teague, Frances. Bathsua Makin, Woman of Learning. Bucknell University Press, 1998.
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Bethlehem Royal Hospital
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Bathsua Makin | Henry Reginald died on 4 April 1635, having become mentally ill and been sent to Bedlam
or Bethlehem Hospital. |
| Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | In London, she met theCarlyles
and John Gibson Lockhart
's daughter Charlotte
. She was also introduced to her future husband, Charles Eastlake
. She called on Agnes Strickland
and Maria Edgeworth
. Lord Shaftesbury |
| Literary responses | Catharine Macaulay | D'Eon, whom Macaulay respected, was sometimes linked with her as a fellow learned lady by those who thought him to be female. On June 6, 1771 the Public Advertiser carried a spoof report that CM |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Nihell | Tobias Smollett
, writing for the Critical in March 1760, took EN
's book as an attack on the obstetrician William Smellie
(though Nihell specifically disavows reference to individuals). His notice is a defence of... |
| politics | Lady Eleanor Douglas | LED
was confined: first in Bedlam (in a special room built for her comfort), then from April 1638 in the Tower of London
. Cope, Esther S. Handmaid of the Holy Spirit: Dame Eleanor Davies, Never Soe Mad a Ladie. University of Michigan Press, 1992. 92-7 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Textual Features | Georgiana Craik | My Sister's Husband relates how a woman discovers her brother-in-law to be as mad as any man in Bedlam. Craik, Georgiana. “My Sister’s Husband”. Dublin University Magazine, Vol. 50 , Aug. 1857, pp. 217-25. 225 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Lady Eleanor Douglas | The text complains bitterly of the author's sufferings in Bedlam, and explains her action at Lichfield Cathedral as analogous to the destruction by Moses of the golden calf, as related in the Old Testament... |
| Travel | Elizabeth Teft | |
| Travel | Elizabeth Heyrick | EH
took to spending her summers in the countryside outside Leicester, living solely on potatoes in a shepherd's cottage with a view to experiencing the lifestyle of subsistence labourers in Ireland. Corfield, Kenneth. “Elizabeth Heyrick: Radical Quaker”. Religion in the Lives of English Women, 1760-1930, edited by Gail Malmgreen, Indiana University Press, 1986, pp. 41-67. 53 |
Timeline
1377: The first insane patients were held at old...
Building item
1377
The first insane patients were held at old Bedlam
, which had been established as a hospital after King Henry III
confiscated the religious priory of St Mary of Bethlem
.
Roberts, Andrew. “Mental Health History Timeline”. Middlesex University: Andrew Roberts Homepage: Mental Health and Learning Disability.
1676: Following the Great Fire of London, Robert...
Building item
1676
Following the Great Fire of London, Robert Hooke
designed the new Bedlam Hospital
in Moorfields, London.
Roberts, Andrew. “Mental Health History Timeline”. Middlesex University: Andrew Roberts Homepage: Mental Health and Learning Disability.
Pope, Alexander. The Poems of Alexander Pope. Editor Butt, John, Twickenham Edition, Methuen; Yale University Press, 1951–1969, 11 vols.
5: 271n31
1758-63: Christopher Smart worked on his unfinished,...
Writing climate item
1758-63
Christopher Smart
worked on his unfinished, unpublished prose-poem or liturgy poem Jubilate Agno.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Sixth edition, Oxford University Press, 2000.
1770: Visits to Bedlam or Bethlehem Hospital were...
Building item
1770
Visits to Bedlam or Bethlehem Hospital
were judged to disturb the inmates: tickets replaced free access on payment at the door. Conditions, however, declined after this.
Weinreb, Ben, and Christopher Hibbert, editors. The London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan, 1983.
Scull, Andrew. The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900. Yale University Press, 1993.
51
Russell, David. Scenes from Bedlam: A History of Caring for the Mentally Disordered at Bethlehem Royal Hospital and the Maudsley. Ballière Tindall, 1997.
91
1811: Bedlam or Bethlehem Hospital moved from Moorfields...
Building item
1811
Bedlam or Bethlehem Hospital
moved from Moorfields in the City of London across the Thames to St George's Fields in Southwark.
Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press, 1999.
219
2 May 1814: A committee charged with investigating abuses...
Building item
2 May 1814
A committee charged with investigating abuses at Bedlam
made a visit of inspection and found inmates treated like vermin.
Scull, Andrew. The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900. Yale University Press, 1993.
112-13
By July 1815: A Parliamentary Select Committee investigating...
National or international item
By July 1815
A Parliamentary Select Committee investigating potential ways to regulate the country's madhouses and improve their management published its first report.
Bynum, William F. “Rationales for Therapy in British Psychiatry, 1780-1835”. Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era, edited by Andrew Scull, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981, pp. 35-57.
42, 44-5, 47, 52
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
5th ser. 2: 336
3 March 1843: The trial opened of Daniel M'Naghten for...
Building item
3 March 1843
The trial opened of Daniel M'Naghten
for the murder of Sir Robert Peel
's private secretary; his counsel pleaded insanity and consequent lack of self-control.
Walker, Nigel. Crime and Insanity in England. Edinburgh University Press, 1968.
92, 94-5
1884: Leading physician George Savage published...
Building item
1884
Leading physician George Savage
published Insanity and Allied Neuroses.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
109-10, 267
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