Bethlem Hospital [ Health ]
… Insanity Punishment Satire On 17 January 1852, Charles Dickens published in Household Words an article, ‘ A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree ’, his account of a dance he attended at St Luke’s Hospital for the Insane in London. He describes some of the dancers : ‘ There was the brisk, vain, pippin-faced little old lady, in a fantastic cap – proud of her foot and ankle; …
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