Women of the Asylum
Subtitle: Voices from Behind the Walls, 1840-1945
Publisher: Anchor
Published: August 1, 1995
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780385474238
First sentence: Despite the groundbreaking efforts of a small number of feminists at the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, the prevailing image of the mid-nineteenth-century woman was that of the True Woman.