Broadmoor Women: Tales from Britain's First Criminal Lunatic Asylum by Kim Thomas

Broadmoor Women: Tales from Britain's First Criminal Lunatic Asylum

Kim Thomas

240 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction true crime dark informative sad medium-paced
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Broadmoor, Britain's first asylum for criminal lunatics, was founded in 1863. In the first years of its existence, one in five patients was female. Most had been tried for terrible crimes and sent to Broadmoor after being found not guilty by virtu...

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