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Gender and madness in nineteenth-century Britain

Gender and madness in nineteenth-century Britain

Essay by Amy Milne-Smith   ▪︎   10 minute read

 

This essay references Jane Eyre and Bertha, but more importantly looks more broadly at that time's perception of women and sanity (or the lack thereof). 

 

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