Voices from the asylum [electronic resource] : four French women writers, 1850-1920 / Susannah Wilson. Wilson, Susannah, 1976- Claudel, Camille, 1864-1943. Rouy, Hersilie, 1814-1881. Esquiron, Marie. Lair Lamotte, Pauline, 1853-1918. Autobiography. Autobiography Women authors. Psychiatry in literature. Psychiatric hospital patients France History 19th century. Women Mental health. PQ295 840.99287 22 Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record. Straddling the disciplines of literature and social history, and based on extensive archival research, this book makes a crucial contribution to the feminist project of writing women back into literary history. It brings to light the hitherto unrecognised literary tradition in the prehistory of psychoanalysis: the psychiatric memoir. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010. 2010. 2010 Text 1 online resource (248 p.). http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199579358.001.0001 eng Oxford modern languages and literature monographs Oxford modern languages and literature monographs. France