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Old Apr 19, 2010, 06:28 AM
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"But were they really mad? Would we today recognise them as mentally ill or were our heroines merely misunderstood, not to mention a tad inconvenient?


"For Radio 4 documentary, Madwomen in the Attic, medical historians, psychiatrists and literary specialists gave their diagnoses of our troubled heroines"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8622367.stm
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