Description: This brave and brilliantly researched intellectual history chronicles the relationship between women and mental illness since 1800, taking readers on a fascinating journey through the fragile, extraordinary human mind. 5 illustrations.
Brief description: Lisa Appignanesi, is the author of Mad, Bad and Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors and All About Love: Anatomy of an Unruly Emotion. A prize-winning novelist and writer, she is the president of English PEN. She lives in London.
Review Quotes: Ambitious . . . brilliant . . . a powerhouse of a book.--Daphne Merkin "New York Sun"