Out of her mind
Subtitle: women writing on madness
By: edited by Rebecca Shannonhouse.
Contributors: Shannonhouse, Rebecca.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Mental illness -- Fiction; Mentally ill women -- Fiction; American prose literature -- Women authors; English prose literature -- Women authors; Women and literature -- English-speaking countries; Mentally ill women -- Biography; Mentally ill, Writings of the; Mental illness
Genres: Fiction.; Biography.
Description: "In this anthology Rebecca Shannonhouse has collected essays, memoirs, and fiction by women writing on madness. All these works offer insights into the largely private world of emotional suffering, and at the same time possess the elements of great literature. As a collection, these voices provide a diverse chronicle of women struggling with madness."--BOOK JACKET.