VICTIM OF AN INSANE WOMAN.; Female Patient in a Massachusetts Asylum Kills Another During an Attendant's Temporary Absence. Share full article. Sept. 14, 1902.

Play Tells Tale of Woman Silenced for Her Beliefs In 1861, Elizabeth Packard was forcibly removed from her home and committed to an insane asylum because she disagreed with her Calvinist husband's ...

Not every person deserved to be stuck in the insane asylum, though. Kit Walker, portrayed by Peters, was wrongfully convicted of killing women as the murderer nicknamed “Bloody Face.” This ...

Wracked with agonizing pain, trapped helpless in an insane asylum… yeah, I’m with Grace on this one. Before the angel can lay a smooch on her, however, Mary Eunice barges in and demands she leave.

Simone Schmidt will debut the theatrical adaptation of her album Audible Songs From Rockwood in a show that gives voice to the women of the asylum. Aug. 6, 2019 2 min read ...

LONDON, Jan. 27.-Fifty lunatics, perhaps more, were burned to death this morning in a fire that destroyed five wooden buildings of the Colney Hatch Insane Asylum, a few miles out of the City of ...

The first OED citation for “political asylum,” from The Times of London in 1852, relates to religious and political turmoil at the time in Switzerland and France. Some of the local Swiss states, or ...

Hart Island, which sits at the western end of New York's Long Island Sound, boasts more than 850,000 residents - all of them dead. The island is now used ...

Infinite Variety Productions, a theater company dedicated to spotlighting women who have gone unnoticed in history, and Wildrence, an immersive design studio and one of New York's most dynamic ...