“We regret to learn that Miss Braddon is out of her mind”: insanity and the lunatic asylum in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s life and fiction

This article examines the relationship between experiences of mental ill-health in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s life and the representations of insanity in her fiction. It discusses the response of the periodical press to the famous sensation novelist’s illness and disappearance from public view in 1869...

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Main Author:	Anne-Marie Beller
Format:	Default Article
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Historical studies Cultural studies Literary studies Mary Elizabeth Braddon Biography Sensation fiction Lunatic asylums Metropolitan licensed houses Insanity Mental health Health humanities Literature and psychiatry Brooke House Hackney
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/2134/30534860.v1
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