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Hi,
I'm afraid I can't recommend any academic articles, but my suggestion would be Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper', and her accompanying short article 'Why I Wrote the Yellow Wallpaper'. It gives a great window into how social stigma around depression was genderised at the time, as well as being a really brilliant read.
Hope this helps,
Rachel
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Subject: Melancholy in Nineteenth century Britain
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Hi all
Could anybody recommend resources, articles or books that look at social stigma surrounding depression in the nineteenth century? This is for a talk on Anna Sewell, who dealt with periods of bleakness/darkness that sound very much like modern descriptions of depression. It would be great to be able to give a bit of social relevance to mental health today.
So, any tips on where to start with nineteenth century ideas about depression/melancholia would be incredibly useful.
Thank you
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