Mental Health Treatment in the Victorian Era

This project examines the portrayal of mental health issues and the way in which women who live with them are treated by others in Jane Eyre and Ruth Hall, in conversation with criticism and contemporary writings on women’s health.  In both novels, women’s mental illness reinforces society’s perception of them as “other,” and their marginalization.  Much of this marginalization is a result of the ways in which the texts emphasize the fear and horror associated with mental illness, and how that fear and horror can als

Barton Cottage

Barton Cottage is the fictional home of the Dashwood women in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility (1813). It is located in Devonshire in the novel and thus a very long way from Norland Park, Norland Estate, in Sussex, where they had lived with their father, Mr. Henry Dashwood, nephew of "the old Gentleman" who instead of leaving the estate to Mr. Henry Dashwood, left it to Mr. Henry Dashwood's son (by his first wife), Mr. John Dashwood and then to John's four-year old son." This decision puts the Dashwood women of Mr.

St. Domingo

St. Domingo is the capital city of the Dominican Republic, a country sharing one island with Haiti near the Gulf of Mexico. Frederick Wentworth was stationed in St. Domingo with the Royal Navy before he met Anne Elliot and fell in love with her: "He was...a captain Frederick Wentworth...who being made commander in consequence of the action off St.

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