The women were given the best treatment available at the time. This was rather different to how we might understand mental health treatment today: there were no drug therapies available during Victorian times, nor psychiatric analysis.
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“They yearn for what they fear for.”
― Inferno
― Inferno
“We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.”
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“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.”
― On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
― On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
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