Gaslight tales of rooftop escapes men and women snatched in broad daylight patients shut in coffins a fanatical cult known as the Abode of Love. The nineteenth century saw repeated panics about sane individuals being locked away in lunatic asylums. With the rise of the 'mad-doctor' profession English liberty seemed to be threatened by a new generation of medical men willing to incarcerate difficult family members in return for the high fees paid by an unscrupulous spouse or friend. And contrary to popular modern belief the madwoman in the attic was at least as likely to have been a madman. Among the victims were the beautiful and charismatic Rosina wife of the novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton; Edward Davies victim of a mother's greed; Louisa Lowe who paid for her religious fervour; and John Perceval who despite the best efforts of the abusive asylum attendants cured himself. Sarah Wise uncovers twelve shocking stories untold for over a century which reveal the darker side of the Victorian upper and middle classes - their sexuality fears of inherited madness financial greed and fraudulence - and chillingly evoke the black motives at the heart of the phenomenon of the 'inconvenient person'.
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