Secondary

Books

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Cossins, Annie. Female Criminality: Infanticide, Moral Panics and The Female Body. (Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).

 

Eigen, Joel Peter. Witnessing Insanity: Madness and Mad-Doctors in the English Court. (New Haven: Yale University, 1995).

 

Eigen, Joel Peter. Unconscious Crime: Mental Absence and Criminal Responsibility in Victorian London. (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press: 2003).

 

Gordon, Harvey. Broadmoor. (Hove: Psychology Press Ltd., 2014).

 

Jackson, Mark. New-Born Child Murder: Women, Illegitimacy and the Courts in Eighteenth-Century England. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996). 

 

Jackson, Mark. Ed. Infanticide: Historical Perspectives on Child Murder and Concealment, 1550-2000. (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2002).

 

Kilday, Anne-Marie. A History of Infanticide in Britain, c. 1600 to the Present. (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

 

Marland, Hilary. Dangerous Motherhood; Insanity and Childbirth in Victorian Britain. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004).

 

McDonagh, Josephine. Child Murder and British Culture, 1720-1900. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2003).

 

Poovey, Mary. Uneven Developments: the ideological work of gender in mid-Victorian England. (London: Virago Press, 1989).

 

Stevens, Mark. Broadmoor Revealed: Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum. (South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword Social, 2013).

 

Thorn, Jennifer. Writing British infanticide: Child-murder, Gender, and Print, 1722-1859. (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2003).

 

Ward, Tony. “The Sad Subject of Infanticide: Law, Medicine and Child Murder, 1860-1938.” Social and Legal Journal 8, No. 2. (June 1, 1999): 163-180.

 

Wiener, Martin J. “Judges v. Jurors: Courtroom Tensions in Murder Trials and the Law of Criminal Responsibility in Nineteenth-Century England.” Law and History Review 17, No. 3 (Autumn, 1999): 467-50.

 

Articles

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“Broadmoor Patients.” The British Medical Journal 2, No. 5089. (Jul. 19, 1958): 174-175.

 

Sauer, R. "Infanticide and Abortion in Nineteenth-Century Britain." Population Studies 32, No. 1 (1978): 81-93.

 

Websites

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Harmon, Shannon Marie. “Broadmoor Hospital: The mad, the bad and the greater good.” Wellcome Collection Blog. November 19, 2010.

https://wellcomecollection.wordpress.com/tag/broadmoor-hospital/

 

Shepherd, Jade. “Broadmoor’s Victorian Superintendents.” Voices of Broadmoor: Crime, Madness and the Asylum. June 22, 2015.

https://voicesfrombroadmoor.wordpress.com/2015/06/22/broadmoors-victorian-superintendents/

 

Primary

Books

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Bucknill, John Charles and Daniel H. Tuke, A Manual Psychological Medicine: The History, Nosology, Description, Statistics, Diagnosis, Pathology, and Treatment of Insanity, (Philadelphia: Blanchard and Lea, 1858).

 

Bucknill, John Charles. An Inquiry into the Proper Classification and Treatment of Criminal Lunatics. (London: John Churchill, 1851).

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Gooch, Robert. On some of the most important diseases of women: and other papers, (London: New Sydenham Society, 1859).

 

Orange, William. “Presidential Address, delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Medico-Psychological Association, held at the Royal College of Physicians, London, July 27th, 1883. By W. ORANGE, M.D., F.R.C.P.” The Journal of Mental Science 26,             No. 127 (Oct. 1883): 329-354.

 

Potts, Charles S. Nervous and Mental Diseases: A Manual for Students and Practitioners. (New York: Lea Brothers & Co, 1900).

 

Prichard, James Cowles. On the Different Forms of Insanity, in Relation to Jurisprudence. (London: Hippolyte Bailliere, 1842).

 

Taylor, Alfred Swaine. Principles and Practice of Medical Jurisprudence. 2nd Ed. Vol. II (London: J. & A. Churchill, 1873).

 

Article

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Baker, John. “Female Criminal Lunatics: A Sketch.” Journal of Mental Science, 48 (1902): 13-28.

 

Jones, Robert. “Puerperal Insanity.” The British Medical Journal 1, No. 2149. (March 1902): 579-586.

 

Nicolson, David. “A Chapter in the History of Criminal Lunacy in England.” Journal of Mental Science 23, No. 102 (1877).

 

Reid, James. “On the Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment of Puerperal Insanity.” Journal of Psychological Medicine and Mental Pathology 1, (Jan 1, 1848): 128-151.

 

Online

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Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, version 6.0, 17 April 2011), 15 April 1724 (17240415).

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