Linking about: the Victorians and Mental Illness

• Victorian Web: Psychology: a general overview of scientific and pseudoscientific approaches.
• Murray K. Simpson, Resources on the History of Idiocy: some e-texts, bibliography, links.
• Andrew Roberts, Index of English and Welsh Lunatic Asylums and Mental Hospitals: includes an overview of the 1844 Lunacy Report, maps, etc.
• County Asylums: images of surviving asylums from the period 1810-1948.
• Bethlem Hospital Royal Archives and Museum: "Bedlam," in operation since the thirteenth century. 
• Fair Mile Hospital: devoted to the history of an asylum founded in 1870.
• Barry Edginton, "The Well-Ordered Body: the Quest for Sanity through Nineteenth-Century Asylum Architecture" (PDF): links between architectural styles and different treatment practices. 
• Charles Dickens, "A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree": annotated e-text of Dickens' account of St. Luke's Hospital.
• "Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum" (Victorian London): article from the Illustrated London Journal.
• Tamara S. Wagner, "The Sensational Use of Medicine" (Victorian Web): madness and the sensation novel.
• Simon A. Hill, "Mania, Dementia, and Melancholia in the 1870s: Admissions to a Cornwall Asylum" (JRSM): studies the admissions book for 1870-75 of St. Lawrence's Hospital.
• Hilary Marland, "Maternity and Madness: Puerperal Insanity in the Nineteenth Century" (PDF): diagnosis, treatment, etc.
• R. Smith, "The Victorian Controversy about the Insanity Defence" (JRSM): brief article about legal and medical objections.
• Lesley A. Hall, Victorian Psychiatry: an introductory bibliography.

Comments

[Anon]

AHHHHH -- this is so incredibly useful to me and my work, thank you!!!!
-- a lurking Victorianist grad student reader of you blog who has thusfar failed to comment but has often contemplated it and is currently considering getting a blog of her own for the upcoming year...