Lost souls : women, religion and mental illness in the Victorian asylum / Diana Peschier.

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

xv, 203 pages, 8 pages of plates : black and white portraits ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-196) and index.

Introduction: The Sin of Eve and dangerous emotions -- Wives, mothers and abuse of women in the asylum -- Women with religious excitement -- Evangelical Sunday school teaching: lessons for girls -- Physical illness -- Asylums and madness mirrored in nineteenth-century literature -- Male asylum patients.