Victorian Asylum for Nervous Women outside Boston
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 1:13 pm
Came across this interesting article about the Adams Nervine Asylum in Jamaica Plain from 1887. It seems there was a plethora of nervous women who weren't insane in Massachusetts during the Victorian period.
See the Boston Globe article here:
http://www.jphs.org/victorian
Scroll down at link--the page may first appear blank.
If it's too long a read for you, go down to the heading At One Fell Swoop about women's lives.
See the Boston Globe article here:
http://www.jphs.org/victorian
Scroll down at link--the page may first appear blank.
If it's too long a read for you, go down to the heading At One Fell Swoop about women's lives.