The Stubborn Wood
Emily Harvin
A novelized version of an (apparently) true case of a woman whose husband had her committed to a private asylum, thus kicking off her two-year ordeal in the clutches of the Snake Pit-like mental health system. The author assumed a pseudonym ‘to protect certain factual asylum officials (whose ill treatment of patients she observed with her own eyes) from embarrassing publicity’ — and to protect herself, as well, since she was a member of ‘a well-known and widely respected family,’ and was uncertain how they would react to her book.
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Details
| Genre | Fiction |
| Copyright Date | 07-Nov-47 |
| Publication Date | 1948 |
| Publisher | Ziff Davis Publishing Co |
| Format | Hardcover |
| No. of Pages | 365 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | NotRated |
| Subject | Mental illness — Fiction; Mentally ill women — Care — Fiction; Women — Institional care — Fiction |
| BookID | 12614 |
