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Author Hitchcock, Susan Tyler.

Title Mad Mary Lamb : lunacy and murder in literary London / Susan Tyler Hitchcock.

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton, [2005]
©2005

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  824 H635    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 333 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-312) and index.
Contents The dreadful scene imagined -- The only daughter -- Their verdict: lunacy -- In the madhouse -- Reading, writing, and mantua making -- Charles alone -- Double singleness -- The circle forms -- Children's books -- Tales from Shakespeare -- Schoolgirl tales -- Poetry for children -- The politics of needlework -- Elia appears -- Her twilight of consciousness.
Subject Lamb, Mary, 1764-1847.
Literature and mental illness -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Psychiatric hospital patients -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century.
Authorship -- Collaboration -- History -- 19th century.
London (England) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
Mentally ill women -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
Murderers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834 -- Family.
ISBN 0393057410
0739456350
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