Madwoman in the Attic: Radio 4, 20/04/10

[Maurice]

11.30am tomorrow

and on 'Listen Again'



Times Online | News and Views from The Times and Sunday Times



'Madness, she wrote...'

Vivienne Parry subjects classic ailing heroines to medical diagnosis



The gloriously unhinged heroines of classic fiction have long been objects of fascination: the snarling Bertha Rochester stashed in the attic in JANE EYRE, Anne Catherick, skulking on Hampstead Heath on the loose from an asylum in THE WOMAN IN WHITE and the ever-delusional shopaholic, Madame Bovary.



But what does modern psychiatry say about these women and what does the depiction of their illness say about the wider societal views of madness at the time they were written?......

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Madness, she wrote - Times Online