Writing Women's Madness, 1845-1914

Mary Chapman is the William Noble Fellow at the University of Liverpool, UK. She previously held the Alan F Price Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship at the University of Liverpool (2023-24), and the WRoCAH Engagement Fellowship at the University of York (2023). She completed a PhD in nineteenth-century literature and the history of medicine at the University of Leeds (2021). She is interested in how writing shaped the development of medical practice during this period and her work centres on women in medicine, as both practitioners and patients.

• .- Chapter 1 Introduction: Understanding the Nineteenth-Century Mind Sciences in their Scientific and Cultural Context.- Chapter 2 The Case of the Madwoman: The Pedagogic Role of Psychiatric Textbooks and the Clinical Presentation of Female Insanity.- Chapter 3 The Female Mind in the Periodical Press: Henry Maudsley and the Sociological Application of Gendered Psychiatric Theory.- Chapter 4 Within the Asylum: Patient Perspectives and Gendered Experience in the Crichton Royal Institution.- Chapter 5 Making a Name for Herself: Helen Boyle’s Work as a Female Pioneer in Mental Health Care.- Chapter 6 Conclusion: Interventions in the Historiography of Victorian Psychiatry.