Hanwell Lunatic Asylum

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Kate Parry Frye
KPF 's husband John Collins, suffering from increasingly severe dementia, was certified insane and admitted to St Bernard's Hospital at Southall in Middlesex, formerly a county asylum for the pauper insane.
Frye, Kate Parry. “Introduction”. Campaigning for the Vote: Kate Parry Frye’s Suffrage Diary, edited by Elizabeth Crawford, Francis Boutle Publishers, 2013, pp. 9-34.
9-10
Crawford, Elizabeth et al. E-mail to Isobel Grundy. 22 Nov. 2013.
Crawford, Elizabeth, and Kate Parry Frye. The Great War: The People’s Story—Kate Parry Frye: The Long Life of an Edwardian Actress and Suffragette. ITV, 2014.

Timeline

1830: Physician John Conolly popularized the concept...

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1830

Physician John Conolly popularized the concept of moral management, in his Inquiry Concerning the Indications of Insanity.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
33, 83, 264n28

1839: By this date Hanwell Lunatic Asylum had introduced...

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1839

By this date Hanwell Lunatic Asylum had introduced therapeutic labour as part of the patient healing process.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
40

1 June 1839: John Conolly became the resident physician...

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1 June 1839

John Conolly became the resident physician at Hanwell Lunatic Asylum ; he proved that a large mental institution could be managed without physical discipline.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
44-6
Bynum, William F. “Rationales for Therapy in British Psychiatry, 1780-1835”. Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen: The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era, edited by Andrew Scull, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981, pp. 35-57.
51-2

By 18 September 1847: John Conolly published The Construction and...

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By 18 September 1847

John Conolly published The Construction and Government of Lunatic Asylums and Hospitals for the Insane, which likened the asylum to a home with a benevolent superintendent father.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
28, 33-5, 84, 255
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1038 (1847): 973

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