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This is an email sent via the SHCG List. If you reply to this message, your message will be sent to all the people on the list, not just the author of this message. --------------- Thank you Rachel! Sent from my iPhone > On 14 Sep 2017, at 10:21 am, Rachel Roberts <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > This is an email sent via the SHCG List. If you reply to this message, your message will be sent to all the people on the list, not just the author of this message. > --------------- > > 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 > > Rachel Roberts > Assistant Curator, Collections and Access > Lakeland Arts > > Direct Line: 01539 888043 > > Blackwell: 015394 46139 > Abbot Hall: 01539 722464 > > Visit our website at lakelandarts.org.uk | Sign up to our e-newsletter | Facebook | Twitter > > > > Lakeland Arts manages Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Blackwell, The Arts & Crafts House, Museum of Lakeland Life & Industry and Windermere Jetty Museum of Boats, Steam and Stories. > > Email Confidentiality Notice - This message is private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify us and remove it from your system. > > Lakeland Arts is a company limited by guarantee which is registered in England and Wales with company number 8162578. Our registered office is at Abbot Hall, Kendal, Cumbria, LA9 5AL. Lakeland Arts is a registered charity, registration number 1153001. > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Social History Curators Group email list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bethan Holdridge > Sent: 14 September 2017 10:01 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Melancholy in Nineteenth century Britain > > This is an email sent via the SHCG List. If you reply to this message, your message will be sent to all the people on the list, not just the author of this message. > --------------- > > 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 > > Sent from my iPhone > The SHCG list is provided for members of Social History Curators Group to discuss subjects relevant to social history in museums. To join SHCG visit www.shcg.org.uk . Opinions expressed in this email are the responsibility of the author and are not necessarily shared by SHCG. To leave the list do not reply to this message but send an email to [log in to unmask] with a blank subject line and these words as the body of the email: SIGNOFF SHCG-LIST > > The SHCG list is provided for members of Social History Curators Group to discuss subjects relevant to social history in museums. To join SHCG visit www.shcg.org.uk . Opinions expressed in this email are the responsibility of the author and are not necessarily shared by SHCG. To leave the list do not reply to this message but send an email to [log in to unmask] with a blank subject line and these words as the body of the email: SIGNOFF SHCG-LIST The SHCG list is provided for members of Social History Curators Group to discuss subjects relevant to social history in museums. To join SHCG visit www.shcg.org.uk . Opinions expressed in this email are the responsibility of the author and are not necessarily shared by SHCG. To leave the list do not reply to this message but send an email to [log in to unmask] with a blank subject line and these words as the body of the email: SIGNOFF SHCG-LIST