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Mentally ill women in literature

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  • Mad Margery, a young woman driven mad and living in the fields. Oil painting attributed to J.J. Hill, 18--.
  • Mad Margery, a young woman driven mad and living in the fields. Oil painting attributed to J.J. Hill, 18--.
  • Mad Margery, a young woman driven mad and living in the fields. Oil painting attributed to J.J. Hill, 18--.
  • Mad Margery, a young woman driven mad and living in the fields. Oil painting attributed to J.J. Hill, 18--.
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    Mad Margery, a young woman driven mad and living in the fields. Oil painting attributed to J.J. Hill, 18--.

    Hill, James John, 1811-1882. | Date: [between 1800 and 1899] | Reference: 603136i
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    Love's madness : medicine, the novel, and female insanity, 1800-1865 / Helen Small.

    Small, Helen. | Date: 1996
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