How I Escaped The Mad Doctors
How I Escaped The Mad Doctors

Author: Georgina Weldon

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781021181374

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Georgina Weldon was a leading voice in the fight for women's rights and mental health reform in the late 19th century. In 'How I Escaped the Mad Doctors', she tells her own harrowing tale of being committed to an insane asylum against her will. With courage and determination, Weldon fought against the corrupt and abusive practices of the mental health system, and eventually won her freedom. This powerful and inspiring memoir is a testament to the strength of the human spirit and the fight for justice. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

How I Escaped the Mad Doctors - Scholar's Choice Edition
How I Escaped the Mad Doctors - Scholar's Choice Edition

Author: Georgina Weldon

Publisher:

Published: 2015-02-15

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 9781298041012

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Women, Madness, and Spiritualism: Georgina Weldon and Louisa Lowe
Women, Madness, and Spiritualism: Georgina Weldon and Louisa Lowe

Author: Roy Porter

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9780415276344

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This set reproduces seminal writings by three exceptional nineteenth-century women. Georgina Weldon, Louisa Lowe and Susan Willis Fletcher were certified as insane by the Victorian medical establishment and were threatened with incarceration for their eccentric and transgressive behaviour. All three were remarkably resourceful and very successfully manipulated the sensationalist press to expose the 'lunacy laws' to the late-Victorian public. In doing this, they contributed to the emerging feminist critique of medicine and science. Each volume is devoted to the work of one of these exceptional women. New introductions by the editors and the late Roy Porter provide context and discussion of the pieces included, pointing to the themes and issues that they raise. With an extensive index, this collection provides an invaluable resource for those studying the role of feminism in the history of medicine and the power of the medical profession in the Victorian era.

Out of the Shadows
Out of the Shadows

Author: Emily Midorikawa

Publisher: Catapult

Published: 2022-09-20

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1640095292

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Queen Victoria's reign was an era of breathtaking social change, but it did little to create a platform for women to express themselves. But not so within the social sphere of the séance—a mysterious, lamp-lit world on both sides of the Atlantic, in which women who craved a public voice could hold their own. Out of the Shadows tells the stories of the enterprising women whose supposedly clairvoyant gifts granted them fame, fortune, and most important, influence as they crossed rigid boundaries of gender and class as easily as they passed between the realms of the living and the dead. The Fox sisters inspired some of the era’s best-known political activists and set off a transatlantic séance craze. While in the throes of a trance, Emma Hardinge Britten delivered powerful speeches to crowds of thousands. Victoria Woodhull claimed guidance from the spirit world as she took on the millionaires of Wall Street before becoming America’s first female presidential candidate. And Georgina Weldon narrowly escaped the asylum before becoming a celebrity campaigner against archaic lunacy laws. Drawing on diaries, letters, and rarely seen memoirs and texts, Emily Midorikawa illuminates a radical history of female influence that has been confined to the dark until now.

Notoriously Nefarious
Notoriously Nefarious

Author: Sergio Black

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2019-06-08

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 0359714897

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Delve headfirst into a World of History, Mythology, Gods, Heroes, and Great Villians. Nefarious Warstar is a Superior who awakens under a blood moon in the year 2020, bestowed with the Eye of Vergina that grants him the power of the Old Gods, he immerses himself into the Fountain of Youth to attain a perfect vessel. Now, he sets out to avenge his parent's death, topple the Neu Regime and vanquish the very first Vampyre known as HIM who has the power to Snatch Bodies and wield an Evil Magic that's far beyond imagination. Savior? Hero? Or Villian? Will Nefarious give in to his darkside and burn the world down or rise up and become the Savior of Mankind that his Father had hoped him to be. Tune into a new Series that punches so hard it will knock your teeth in!

Mad-Doctors in the Dock
Mad-Doctors in the Dock

Author: Joel Peter Eigen

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2016-10-27

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1421420481

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The first comprehensive account of how medical insight and folk psychology met in the courtroom, this book makes clear the tragedy of the crimes, the spectacle of the trials, and the consequences of the diagnosis for the emerging field of forensic psychiatry.