Blog - Women, Madness And Marriage

Find out how marital problems affected women in Victorian times through the records of Kate Marian Merriman.

See how the medical records of an appreciable number of the young women admitted as patients of Bethlem in the late nineteenth century provide evidence of a clo

Find out more about women and madness in the 19th century.

This short series looks at the very different experiences of several of Victorian Bethlem’s female patients regarding marriage.