Lost Souls

Diana Peschier holds a PhD from University of London. She is the author of Nineteenth-century Anti-Catholic Discourse: The Case of Charlotte Bronte (2005)

Chapter One: Introduction: The Sin of Eve and Dangerous Emotions
Chapter Two: Wives, Mothers and Abuse of Women in the Asylum
Chapter Three: Women with Religious Excitement
Chapter Four: Evangelical Sunday School Teaching: Lessons for Girls
Chapter Five: Physical Illness
Chapter Six: Asylums and Madness Mirrored in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Chapter Seven: Male Asylum Patients
Epilogue
Bibliography and Sources