Henry Maudsley

Standard Name: Maudsley, Henry

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Birth Lucie Duff Gordon
The renowned doctor Henry Maudsley assisted during her birth.
Frank, Katherine. Lucie Duff Gordon: A Passage to Egypt. Hamish Hamilton, 1994.
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Education Sophia Jex-Blake
In reponse to this incident, Henry Maudsley , lecturer in insanity at St Mary's Hospital, published the article Sex in Mind and in Education, opposing medical education for women. His article in turn prompted...
Health Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Henry Maudsley was among the medical men summoned to assess his condition. His friends avoided placing him in an actual asylum in order to protect his career, and instead helped him to recovery in a...
Intertextuality and Influence Dora Greenwell
She initially wrote this piece to support the Royal Albert Asylum for Idiots and to raise awareness surrounding the issue of physical and mental disabilities. She called her work for the Asylum a labour of...

Timeline

5 February 1835: Henry Maudsley, doctor and pioneer psychiatrist,...

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5 February 1835

Henry Maudsley , doctor and pioneer psychiatrist, was born at Rome Farm, in the parish of Giggleswick, Yorkshire.
Collie, Michael. Henry Maudsley: Victorian Psychiatrist. West End House, 1988, http://HSS.
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During the 1860s: Henry Maudsley read works by T. H. Huxley...

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During the 1860s

Henry Maudsley read works by T. H. Huxley which affected his theories of psychology.
Collie, Michael. Henry Maudsley: Victorian Psychiatrist. West End House, 1988, http://HSS.
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After March 1866: On the death of prominent Victorian psychiatrist...

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After March 1866

On the death of prominent Victorian psychiatrist John Conolly , his son-in-law and leading Darwinist psychiatrist Henry Maudsley wrote a scathing official memoir.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
116-17
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
116

By 18 May 1867: With his first work, The Physiology and Pathology...

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By 18 May 1867

With his first work, The Physiology and Pathology of Mind, leading Darwinist psychiatrist Henry Maudsley turned psychiatry towards mental activity and its relation to the biological sciences.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
117-8
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2064 (1867): 659

1870s: Henry Maudsley was principal editor of the...

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1870s

Henry Maudsley was principal editor of the Journal of Mental Science, the journal of the Medico-Psychological Association .
Collie, Michael. Henry Maudsley: Victorian Psychiatrist. West End House, 1988, http://HSS.
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1870: Psychiatrist Henry Maudsley published Body...

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1870

Psychiatrist Henry Maudsley published Body and Mind, in which he connected visible vice and mental degeneracy.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
106
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
106, 266n16

1872: Emma Dixon took over Lawn House from Henry...

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1872

Emma Dixon took over Lawn House from Henry Maudsley ; she was the proprietor of the private asylum along with her niece, and they increased the number of patients to eight, all female.
Collie, Michael. Henry Maudsley: Victorian Psychiatrist. West End House, 1988, http://HSS.
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1874: Physician Henry Maudsley published Responsibility...

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1874

Physician Henry Maudsley published Responsibility in Mental Disease, which discussed eugenic control and the law in relation to mental disease.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
104, 118, 266n11

April 1874: Henry Maudsley published Sex in Mind and...

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April 1874

Henry Maudsley published Sex in Mind and in Education in Fortnightly Review, which developed his view that women should not be permitted to train as doctors.
Collie, Michael. Henry Maudsley: Victorian Psychiatrist. West End House, 1988, http://HSS.
48-52, 153

May 1874: In the Fortnightly Review, Dr Elizabeth Garrett...

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May 1874

In the Fortnightly Review, Dr Elizabeth Garrett Anderson refuted Henry Maudsley 's argument against women's medical schooling in his article Sex in Mind and in Education.
Collie, Michael. Henry Maudsley: Victorian Psychiatrist. West End House, 1988, http://HSS.
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June 1874: In an infamous Fortnightly Review article,...

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June 1874

In an infamous Fortnightly Review article, Henry Maudsley condemned education for women as injurious to their bodies and as presaging a sexless race.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
124-6
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
125

1886: Henry Maudsley published Natural Causes and...

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1886

Henry Maudsley published Natural Causes and Supernatural Seemings.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
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1895: Psychiatrist Henry Maudsley published a revision...

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1895

Psychiatrist Henry Maudsley published a revision of Pathology of Mind: a Study of Its Distempers, Deformities, and Disorders, arguing that insanity grew in the uncultured and uneducated mind.
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
108-9, 119-20, 124, 296
Showalter, Elaine. The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture, 1830-1980. Pantheon Books, 1985.
124

1896: Grant Allen published A Splendid Sin, which...

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1896

Grant Allen published A Splendid Sin, which was influenced by the psychological ideas of Henry Maudsley .
Collie, Michael. Henry Maudsley: Victorian Psychiatrist. West End House, 1988, http://HSS.
58-65
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.

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