The last asylum : a memoir of madness in our times
Taylor, Barbara, 1950 April 11-2015
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'The Last Asylum' begins with Barbara Taylor's visit to the innocuously named Princess Park Manor in Friern Barnet, North London - a picture of luxury and repose. But this is the former site of one of England's most infamous lunatic asylums, the Middlesex County Pauper Lunatic Aslyum at Colney Hatch. At its peak this asylum housed nearly 3,000 patients - among them, in the 1980s, Barbara Taylor herself. This is her powerful account of her battle with mental illness, set inside the wider story of the end of the UK asylum system.
Main title:
The last asylum : a memoir of madness in our times / Barbara Taylor.
Author:
Taylor, Barbara, 1950 April 11-, author
Imprint:
UK : Penguin Books, 2015.UK : Penguin Books, 2015.
Collation:
xx, 289 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Hamish Hamilton, 2014.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780241951828 (pbk)
Dewey class:
362.21092362.21092 TAY
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1709078