Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman is Mary Wollstonecraft's unfinished novelistic sequel to her revolutionary political treatise A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. The Wrongs of Woman was published pos
Title page, 1798
Final plate from William Hogarth's A Rake's Progress, showing Bedlam, a famous insane asylum in Britain
Joseph Highmore's rendition of Pamela fainting as Mr. B. attempts to rape her (1743–4), a scene that came to epitomize sensibility in the eighteenth century
"The First Kiss of Love", from Rousseau's Julie, or the New Heloise (1761), illustrated by Nicolas-André Monsiau
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The lunatic asylum, insane asylum or mental asylum was an institution where people with mental illness were confined. It was an early precursor of the modern psychiatric hospital.
Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman
…William Godwin, and is often considered her most radical feminist work. Wollstonecraft's philosophical and gothic novel revolves around the story of a woman imprisoned in an insane asylum by her husband. It focuses on the societal rather than the individual "wrongs of woman" and criticizes what Wollstonecraft viewed as the patriarchal…
Social alienation was one of the main themes in Francisco Goya's masterpieces, such as The Madhouse (above).
Eastern State Hospital was the first psychiatric institution to be founded in the United States.
Dr. Philippe Pinel at the Salpêtrière, 1795 by Tony Robert-Fleury. Pinel ordering the removal of chains from patients at the Paris asylum for insane women.
The joint counties' lunatic asylum, erected at Abergavenny, 1850