Inconvenient People (75 page)

Dadd, Richard 77

Daily Telegraph
224, 226, 240, 243

Darwin, Charles 275–7, 304, 378

Davey, Dr James (alienist) 159

Davies, Edward 1–32, 105, 146, 147, 378

de Bathe, Sir Henry 326, 329, 331, 347, 353, 358, 360, 366

Delane, John (editor of
The Times
) 226

delirium tremens 272, 273, 288, 397, 398

de lunatico inquirendo
see
lunacy inquisitions

Denman, Lord (judge) 181, 183

Devon 186, 190, 291

County Asylum 187, 188, 191, 192

diagnosis, criticisms of alienists’ attempts at 28–9, 275

Dickens, Catherine 247–8, 336

Dickens, Charles 138, 176, 200, 208, 220–1, 222, 234, 246, 247–8, 277, 284, 333, 336, 337, 338–9, 342, 355

Disraeli, Benjamin 221, 231, 233, 234, 249

divorce 203, 214, 215, 241, 251, 272, 294, 342–3
see
also
Matrimonial Causes Act; separation

Dixon, William Hepworth Dixon (author and journalist) 129

Dodgson, Charles (‘Lewis Carroll’) 80–1, 312
see
also Alice in Wonderland
/
Through the Looking Glass
;
The Hunting of the Snark

domesticity 99, 307, 352

Dorset County Asylum
see
Forston

drink xix, 30, 58, 135, 141, 145, 156, 169, 180, 267, 271, 273, 371, 397, 398, 407
see
also
delirium tremens

Drummond, Edward (Robert Peel’s murdered private secretary) 77, 87

Drummond, Henry (banker, politician, writer, Irvingite apostle) 42

Dublin, 42, 43, 44, 89, 216, 217, 222

Duncombe, Thomas Slingsby (Radical Liberal MP and lunacy law campaigner) 78, 79, 82, 83

East India Company 65

East India House 5, 6, 7

eccentricity 20, 21, 26, 27, 89, 116, 145, 172, 173, 176, 270, 286, 287, 392

Effra Hall Asylum 84, 85, 153–5, 176

eighteenth century xix–xx, xxi

Elliott, Cyrus Alexander (asylum proprietor) 153, 176

epilepsy/epileptics 194, 365, 396

embarrassment caused to family or spouse by alleged lunatic 49, 115, 119, 289, 340–1, 376
see also
secrecy

escapes/escapees from asylums 190, 235, 256, 257–8, 261, 307, 351, 357, 398, 399, 402, 403, 406, 407

Esquirol, Jean-Etienne (French alienist) 145

Eton school 283

eugenics/eugenicists 381, 382–3

Evangelicals 41, 45, 73, 280, 285

evolutionary theory 276, 304, 305, 310

Exeter 98, 291, 292, 294, 295, 296, 302, 306, 314

Eyre Arms tavern, St John’s Wood 155, 156, 157, 159

Fairlie, Laura
see
Woman in White, The

Father Meyrick (alleged lunatic) 354

‘feeble-minded’ 381, 382, 383, 384, 390, 407
see also
‘mental deficiency’; ‘moral defectives’

Felbrigg Hall, Norfolk 283, 284

female insanity
see
gender

feminism
see
women’s rights

Ferry, William (murderer) 76–7

Finch, William (asylum proprietor) 64, 66

First World War 379, 381

Fishponds Asylum near Bristol 397

Fletcher, Edward (maliciously incarcerated) 199, 396

Forster, John 195–6, 222–3, 225, 226, 232, 243–8, 249, 261, 284

Forston lunatic asylum (Dorset County Asylum) 96

Fosco, Count
see
Woman in White, The

Foucault, Michel 380

Four Forks, Spaxton
see
Agapemone

Fox, Dr Charles Henry (co-proprietor and son of Francis Ker) 298, 299–300, 301, 303, 319, 322

Fox, Dr Charles Joseph (asylum co-proprietor, son of Edward) 35, 53

Fox, Dr Edward Long (asylum proprietor) 34–5, 36, 36n, 45–9, 50–1, 53, 54, 55, 57, 299

Fox, Dr Francis Ker (asylum proprietor, son of Edward) 35, 39–40, 298

Fox, Dr Henry (son of Edward) 35, 53

Frampton, Dr Algernon 25

France
see
ancien régime
; bastille

Freud, Sigmund 318, 348

Fulham, West London 222, 279, 290, 354

Fulljames, Trophimus (patient at Brislington House Asylum) 36n, 39, 54

Furnival’s Inn Coffee House 12–14, 31, 32

Garrick Club 337, 347, 362

Gaskell, Elizabeth (author and sister-in-law of Samuel Gaskell) 84

Gaskell, Samuel (Lunacy Commissioner) 84, 196, 233, 270

Gas Light
198

gender

and lunacy xvii, xviii–xix, 16, 30, 92–3, 116–17, 146, 234, 262, 305, 306, 311–13, 315, 347, 348, 371, 393–4
see also
hereditary insanity; husbands; maternal feelings; menstruation; paternalism; physical causes of insanity; post-natal depression; pregnancy; religious mania; wives

Germany 87, 90, 91, 292

Georget, Étienne-Jean (French alienist) 30

Gheel settlement, Belgium 316

Gilbert, Sandra 204

Giles Castle Hotel, Taunton 97, 223, 236

Gladstone, William Ewart 249, 285, 329

Gloucestershire asylums private and public xviii, 69, 85, 86, 406

Gounod, Charles 337–8, 339–40, 341, 342, 360, 366, 372

Gray’s Inn Coffee House 17, 21, 22

Great Exhibition 86, 120–1

Great Manifestation
see
Agapemone

Grierson, Edward (biographer) ix

Grove House Asylum, Bow, east London 406

Gubar, Susan 204

guns
see
firearms

habeas corpus xv, xxi, 18, 31, 119, 126, 181, 251
see also
child custody; husbands – right to the custody of a wife

Hall, Dr Marshall (physician) 219, 233, 234

Hamilcar, Marcia (alleged lunatic) 369

Hamilton, Patrick (playwright) 198

Hammersmith, West London 278, 279, 282, 310, 330, 331, 346, 351, 362

Hammond home-incarceration scandal 205–6, 207

Hands, Dr Benjamin 14

Hansard, Luke James (lunacy law campaigner) 71–2, 78, 79, 395–6

Hanwell 305, 306, 309
see also
Lawn House; Middlesex County Asylum

Hard Cash
see
Reade, Charles

Harrow school 74, 75, 252

Haslam, Dr John (alienist) 19, 24, 25, 29

Hayes Park Asylum 86

Haymarket 65, 283

Haynes, Robert (solicitor to Catherine Cumming) 143, 144, 146, 149, 152, 153, 156–7, 162, 165, 166, 167, 170, 171, 174

hearing voices 36–8, 40, 43, 44, 58, 115, 365, 403

Herbert, Herminet (asylum attendant)
see
Hobbs, Samuel

hereditary nature of insanity, belief in and opposition to 27, 30, 50, 116, 158–9, 270, 271, 273, 304, 316, 348, 355, 371, 381, 382

Hertford, Hertfordshire 221, 223–5, 227, 234, 250

Hill, Dr Robert Gardiner (alienist and asylum proprietor) 228, 230–4, 235, 241, 242, 244–7

hockey 110–11, 112, 113

Hobbs, Samuel (asylum attendant) 35, 38, 39, 47, 52, 53, 54, 86

Hobler, Francis (attorney) 18, 19, 22

Home Office 39, 41, 54–5, 87, 89, 90

Home Secretary 36n, 62, 86, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 96, 104, 122, 123, 185, 188, 207, 286, 322, 401

Hood, Dr William Charles (alienist and superintendent of Bethlehem Hospital) 234, 244–5, 283

Horns Tavern, South London 141, 144, 147, 148, 150, 156, 164, 166

House of Commons 22, 40, 45, 69, 82, 213

House of Lords 59, 69, 249, 251, 322, 364, 375

reject lunacy legislation xx, 185

Hoxton House Asylum 68

Hume, John Robert (Lunacy Commissioner) 84

Hunting of the Snark, The
81

husbands

incarcerated by wives xix, 68–70, 76, 89–90, 272–3, 395, 396, 398, 406–8

legal right to the custody of wife 126, 250–1

violence by 76, 135, 272, 360

Huxley, T. H. 304

hypnotism
see
mesmerism

hysteria 303, 347

idiocy/idiots 22, 76, 77, 118, 172, 380, 381
see also
imbecility/imbeciles

ignorance, alienists’ confess to 29–30, 157, 158

illegitimacy 380

imbecility/imbeciles 22, 68, 76, 117, 159, 169, 172, 177, 181, 380, 381
see also
idiocy/idiots

incest 215, 220, 295

infant mortality
see
child deaths

inherited insanity
see
hereditary nature of insanity

inquisitions
see
lunacy inquisitions

Inverness Lodge Asylum 231, 232, 235, 236, 241, 242, 244

Irvingite sect 42, 57, 106

Jack the Ripper 370

James, Edwin (lawyer) 241, 242, 261–2, 263

James, William 317

Jane Eyre
80, 183, 198, 201–5
see also
Brontë, Charlotte; Mason, Bertha; Poole, Grace

Jesuits/Jesuitism 73, 354

Johnson, Dr George Cornelius 137, 138, 145

Jung, Carl 317–18, 348

juries, lunacy investigations and 22–3, 24, 25, 26, 72, 77, 82, 113, 114, 115, 141, 142, 143–4, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 162–74, 176, 252, 262–7, 272, 273, 277, 279, 281, 283, 284–6, 289, 309, 312, 313, 315, 346, 361, 363, 389, 398

Kay-Shuttleworth, Sir James 183

Kempe, Dr 296, 302, 306

Kensington House Asylum 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 396, 398

Kilvert, Francis 299

Knebworth House 208, 215, 217, 218, 219, 225, 233, 243, 249

Knight Bruce, Lord Justice 119–20, 174

Lamb, Charles and Mary 149

Lampeter Brethren 95, 96, 98, 125

Lancaster County Asylum 407

Lancet, The
xv, 29, 78, 83, 148, 173–4, 175–6

Lancey, Edward (mistreated family lunatic) 191–3

Lanchester, Edith (alleged lunatic) 377–78

Landor, Walter Savage (writer) 218, 222

Laverstock House Asylum 47, 401

Lawn House Asylum, 303, 304, 305, 307, 308, 309–10, 399

Lawrence, Sir William (surgeon) 8–9, 11, 16, 18

lawsuits mounted by freed patients/escapees 70–1, 82, 111–14, 274–5, 281, 308, 314, 360–6, 378, 388, 395, 396, 398, 402

Latham, Dr Peter 10, 29

Laycock, Dr Thomas 317, 318

Leach, Reverend William (alleged lunatic) 277–83, 286, 287

Leeds 254–5, 257, 264

legislation
see
Acts of parliament

letters by patients
see
correspondence of patients

lettre de cachet
system in Royalist France 92
see also
ancien régime
; bastille

liberalism 50, 62, 382–3

Liberals/Liberal members of parliament/Whigs 69, 78, 90, 212, 222, 224, 240

licensing and inspection of asylums xx, xxi, 47, 55, 75–6, 83

Lincoln 212, 235

Liverpool 252, 260, 397

Loaden, William (lawyer to Edward Bulwer-Lytton and Charles Dickens) 220, 226–7, 228, 236, 246

Local Government Board 402

Lord Chancellor xiii, 15, 16, 19, 21–2, 75, 78, 83, 86, 113, 119, 147, 150, 152, 155, 164, 172, 174–5, 176, 180, 185, 186, 196, 207, 220, 235, 279, 285, 309, 310, 311, 315, 376, 392, 403, 406

Lord Eldon (Lord Chancellor 1801–27, made landmark lunacy judgment) 172

Lord Portsmouth lunacy case 10, 21

Lowe, Reverend George (husband of the below) 291–2, 293, 294–5, 296, 297, 298, 302, 303, 306, 308, 309, 310, 317, 318–20

Lowe, Louisa

admits she had been in ‘confused’ and ‘excited’ state 315, 318–19

and Georgina Weldon 329, 330–1, 332, 357–8, 359

and Lawn House/Henry Maudsley 303–9, 310, 317, 319

and spiritualism/automatic writing 296–8, 301, 306, 308, 310, 317–19, 321, 322

and the 1877 Select Committee 322–4

criticisms of Commissioners in Lunacy 313–15

death of 326

declared cured 310

early life, marriage and motherhood 291–2, 294–5

founds the Lunacy Law Reform Association and assists alleged lunatics 311–16, 401–8

mounts action against her husband 319–21, 359

mounts lawsuits for libel and false imprisonment 321, 322

nervous temperament 292, 295

relationship with her grown-up children 295, 309, 319, 320

seizure and incarceration at Brislington 297–301, 303

social and political views xv, 298–300, 308, 316–17, 321, 339

suicide attempt 292, 313

Lunacy Commission/Commissioners
see
Commissioners in Lunacy; Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy

lunacy inquisitions xiii, 15, 16, 17, 21–6, 102, 108, 114, 141–8, 156–75, 176, 177, 284, 286, 287, 309, 310, 315, 378, 389, 397, 398, 403, 404, 405

Lunacy Law Amendment Society 321, 322, 375, 401

Lunacy Law Reform Association
see
Louisa Lowe

‘lunacy panics’ of 1858 252, 285

Lutwidge, Robert Wilfred Skeffington (Lunacy Commissioner and uncle of ‘Lewis Carroll’) 80–2, 180, 185, 265, 301, 303, 308, 309, 313, 319

Luxmore, Charles (mistreated family lunatic) 187–90, 191

Lyndhurst, Lord (Lord Chancellor) 220

Lytton, Edward, Rosina etc.
see
Bulwer-Lytton

Macaulay, Thomas Babbington (politician and historian) 241

Macclesfield County Asylum 401

MacMichael, Dr William 21

magistrates/magistracy xviii, xx, xxi, 22–3, 36n, 47, 54, 55, 59, 60, 65–6, 69, 72, 74, 75, 84–5, 86, 88, 89, 90, 91, 96, 138, 151, 179, 187, 188, 190, 191, 205, 207, 228, 252, 259, 260, 272, 287, 289, 301, 315, 324, 326, 341, 357, 360, 376, 377, 383, 387, 388, 389, 390, 397, 398, 399, 401, 403, 404, 406, 407

Magna Carta xxi, 92

Magna Charta Association 354

Maida Vale, London 130, 132, 149, 165–6

male insanity
see
gender

Manor House Asylum, West London 84, 247

marriage
see
child custody; divorce; marriage settlements; Married Women’s Property Acts; restitution of conjugal rights; separation; wives

marriage settlements 114, 291

Married Women’s Property Acts xix, 253, 336, 345, 360

Marshall, Mary (medium) 293

Marylebone, central London 197, 395, 405

Mason, Bertha xvii, 80, 198, 201–3

Masters in Lunacy (for Chancery lunatics) xiii, 83, 406

masturbation 9, 198, 283, 299, 305

maternal feelings, lack of as indicative of insanity 143–4, 146, 155, 173

Mathew
v.
Harty
case, 1851 199