Spent two days at Heron Corn Mill pursuing hunches. The Matilda Betham research has steered me into reading about women and insanity. As mentioned in a previous post, Elaine Bailey has written about this in Insanity and the Lunatic Asylum in the Nineteenth Century ed. by Thomas Knowles and Serena Trowbridge in respect of (Mary) Matilda Betham, (the poet, diarist …
