THE VICTORIAN MENTAL SCIENCES

Mental Disability in Victorian England: The Earlswood Asylum 1847-1901

Several decades ago, during my teenage years in the 1970s, I attended a grammar school near Reigate in Surrey. Every weekday morning for seven years, I would take an early train from Horley to Redhill, before walking or catching a bus from there to the school. As the train travelled northwards on its way to Redhill (and on to London), it passed through a small, often seemingly abandoned, statio...

Mental disability in Victorian England: the Earlswood Asylum, 1847–1901

they have been accompanied by medicinal or psychological interventions" (p. 4). Thus, whilst Jackson did not define what he meant by "psychological", the contexts make clear that it could be taken as "non-material". (He refers to the use of the term as the title for the English translation of Pierre Janet's own historical work, Les medications psychologiques (Paris, Alcan, 1919), a diachronical...

The idea of human prehistory: the natural sciences, the human sciences, and the problem of human origins in Victorian Britain.

The idea of human prehistory was a provocative and profoundly influential new notion that took shape gradually during the nineteenth century. While archaeology played an important role in providing the evidence for this idea many other sciences such as geology, paleontology, ethnology, and physical anthropology all made critical contributions to discussions about human prehistory. Many works ha...

The Place of the rubaiyat in victorian Poetry

The Victorian home

by the Group a recognizable pattern of the pre-industrial western European family can be detected. Mr. Laslett's classic paper on the villages ofClayworth and Cogenhoe, where this was first revealed, is here, as is one on long-term trends in bastardy. There are others on parental deprivation, the history of aging and the aged, age of sexual maturity in Europe since the Middle Ages, and the hous...