ML
died in the Bloomfield Institution
, an insane asylum in Dublin, from the lingering effects of a brain haemorrhage two months earlier.
Hampton, Jill Brady. “Ambivalent Realism: May Laffans Flitters, Tatters, and the CounsellorNew Hibernia Review, Vol.
12
, No. 2, 2008, pp. 127-41.
130
Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT, 2005.
68
Health
May Laffan
ML
's husband, Walter Noel Hartley
, committed her to the Bloomfield Institution
, a private facility for the insane in Dublin. She spent the rest of her life here, nearly six years in all.
Hampton, Jill Brady. “Ambivalent Realism: May Laffans Flitters, Tatters, and the CounsellorNew Hibernia Review, Vol.
12
, No. 2, 2008, pp. 127-41.
130
Kahn, Helena Kelleher. Late Nineteenth-Century Ireland’s Political and Religious Controversies in the Fiction of May Laffan Hartley. ELT, 2005.