A review by kateclysm
Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England by Sarah Wise

2.0

The text rambles, as if the author were telling a fantastically distracted story instead of laying down a factual account of the conditions of insane asylums. There is also much description of the wealthy and the very wealthy, and little mention of the very poor, although if one were to infer what happened to people with no money in these places it's easy to imagine the descriptions would keep a person up at night. It's possible this got covered later in the book, I couldn't finish due to the rambling prose.