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LIFE FOR THE FAMILIES OF THE VICTORIAN CRIMINALLY INSANE

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JADE SHEPHERD*
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Abstract

This article uses hundreds of letters written by the families of patients committed to Victorian Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum to provide the first sustained examination of the effects of asylum committal on patients’ individual family members. It shows that, despite what historians have previously suggested, the effect on families was not solely, or even necessarily primarily, economic; it had significant emotional effects, and affected family members’ sense of self and relationships outside the asylum. It also shows that family ties and affective relationships mattered a great deal to working-class Victorians. Some found new ways to give meaning to their relationship with, and the life of, their incarcerated relative, despite the costs this entailed. By taking a new approach – engaging with the history of the family, shifting focus from patients to their individual family members, and considering factors including age, class, gender, change over time, and life stage – this article demonstrates the breadth and depth of the effects of asylum committal, and in doing so provides new and significant insights into the history of the Victorian asylum. It also enriches the history of the family by providing an insight into working-class quotidian lives, bonds, and emotions.

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The Historical Journal , Volume 63 , Issue 3 , June 2020 , pp. 603 - 632
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I would like to thank Joel Morley for reading multiple drafts of this article, the three anonymous reviewers for their very kind and generous feedback, and Emma Griffin for her swift and helpful communication.

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19 More case files pertaining to Queen's pleasure patients contained letters from family members and in greater quantities than those for insane convicts.

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24 As the asylum did not retain all letters, quantitative analysis has limited utility.

25 Summerfield, Histories of the self, p. 28.

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31 D/H14/D2/2/2/175/53, to superintendent.

32 D/H14/D2/2/2/178/5.

33 D/H14/D2/2/2/183/7; D/H14/D2/2/2/164/7; D/H14/D2/2/2/398/14.

34 D/H14/D2/2/2/184/6.

35 D/H14/D2/2/2/183/4, to superintendent.

36 Bailey, ‘This rash act’, pp. 234–5.

37 D/H14/D2/2/2/183.

38 D/H14/D2/2/2/101.

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40 D/H14/D2/2/1/1102/71.

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42 Ross, Love and toil; Strange, Fatherhood and the British working class, p. 51.

43 D/H14/D2/2/1/905/18; D/H14/D2/2/1/887/5–17; D/H14/D2/2/1/811.

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46 Nineteenth-century society ‘assumed female dependency’ to be the norm. Lewis, ‘Working-class mother’, p. 106.

47 D/H14/D2/2/1/799/4 and 11; D/H14/D2/2/1/1689; D/H14/D2/2/1/1085/26; D/H14/D2/2/1/599/4. Bourke, Joanna, Working-class cultures in Britain 1890–1960 (London, 1994), pp. 71–81Google Scholar; Strange, Julie-Marie, Death, grief and poverty in Britain, 1870–1914 (Cambridge, 2005), p. 194CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Strange, Fatherhood and the British working class, p. 56.

48 D/H14/D2/2/1/830/8, to superintendent; D/H14/D2/2/1/1102/33. Women often used lodgers to supplement their income: see Roberts, A woman's place, p. 141.

49 For example, D/H14/D2/2/1/829; D/H14/D2/2/1/900/9.

50 D/H14/D2/2/1310.

51 D/H14/D2/2/1/1680, to superintendent.

52 D/H14/D2/2/1/599/4, to superintendent.

53 D/H14/D2/2/1/599/6. The Poor Law Guardians recognized that this alone, the maximum most received, was barely enough to keep families from the workhouse. Frost, Ginger, Victorian childhoods (London, 2009), p. 124Google Scholar.

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55 D/H14/D2/2/1936a.

56 Ross, Love and toil, p. 156. People who struggled expected family members to help: see King, Writing the lives of the English poor, pp. 75–81.

57 Some families requested privacy when committing relatives to asylums. Suzuki, Akihito, Madness at home: the psychiatrist, the patient and the family in England, 1820–1860 (Berkeley, CA, 2006), p. 121Google Scholar.

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60 D/H14/D2/2/1/1092/15; also D/H14/D2/2/1/900/5. The expectation that children might help ageing parents is also evident in cases where patients’ adult children offered their homes to them: see D/H14/D2/2/1/1085/21 and 23–8, to superintendent. Elderly men found themselves unemployed and in the workhouse sooner than women: see Davin, Growing up poor, p. 25.

61 Bailey, ‘This rash act’, p. 211.

62 D/H14/D2/2/1/900/4, to patient Ball; D/H14/D2/2/1/900/5, to superintendent. Many parents were in almost constant contact with the superintendent: see D/H14/D2/2/1/1068/22–56; D/H14/D2/2/1/901/5–25.

63 D/H14/D2/2/2/101/12.

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66 To access Victorian children's experiences, historians have used trial transcripts, official documents, autobiographies, fiction, and, when possible, letters. See essays in Baxter, Jane Eva and Ellis, Meredith A. B., eds., Nineteenth century childhoods in interdisciplinary and international perspectives (Oxford, 2018)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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68 D/H14/D2/2/2/175/22. Grandparents had a long history of providing ‘substitute parenting’. Bailey (Begiato), Parenting in England, p. 204.

69 D/H14/D2/2/1/936a/204; D/H14/D2/2/1/936b/28.

70 Shepherd, ‘One of the best fathers’.

71 Strange, Fatherhood and the British working class, p. 80.

72 D/H14/D2/2/1/936c.

73 Davin, Growing up poor, p. 26; Griffin, ‘Emotions of motherhood’.

74 D/H14/D2/2/1/936c/104, to Dodwell.

75 Strange, Fatherhood and the British working class, p. 41.

76 D/H14/D2/2/1/765/23.

77 D/H14/D2/2/1/936b/166.

78 Nelson, Family ties in Victorian England, p. 93.

79 D/H14/D2/2/2/183/33, to superintendent.

80 D/H14/D2/2/1/936b/28.

81 D/H14/D2/2/1/936b/195.

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83 D/H14/D2/2/1/936a/209–10.

84 He visited his father thirty-five times in February 1885. D/H14/D2/2/1/936b/67, memorandum; for Dodwell's letters, see, for example, D/H14/D2/2/1/936b/47, letter to ‘undutiful’ daughter.

85 Strange develops the idea of a ‘fragile’ father in Fatherhood and the British working class, pp. 49–81.

86 D/H14/D2/2/1/963.

87 Strange, Fatherhood and the British working class, p. 81.

88 Thane, Old age in English history, p. 299; Cooper, D. and Donald, M., ‘Households and “hidden” kin in early-nineteenth-century England’: four case studies in suburban Exeter, 1821–1861’, Continuity and Change, 10 (1995), pp. 257–78CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

89 D/H14/D2/2/2/175/48.

90 D/H14/D2/2/1/918/16.

91 D/H14/D2/2/1/1076/18.

92 D/H14/D2/2/1/918/16–17, to superintendent.

93 D/H14/D2/2/1/1254/56, medical report.

94 D/H14/D2/2/1/901/4–5; D/H14/D2/2/2/174/20; D/H14/D2/2/2/173/5; D/H14/D2/2/1/1102/58; D/H14/D2/2/1/791/6, all to superintendent.

95 D/H14/D2/2/1/936a/241, to Dodwell; D/H14/D2/2/2/101/7, to Dyson; D/H14/D2/2/1/569/2, to Jones. Numerous family members referred to their ‘Dear’ relative. It was not merely a formality but, as David Fitzpatrick noted in his study of Irish and Australian migrant letters, was used to assure ‘the reader that familial solidarity was intact’: Oceans of consolation: personal accounts of Irish migration to Australia (Cork, 1994), p. 22.

96 D/H12/D2/2/1/963/18.

97 D/H14/D2/2/1/963/31.

98 D/H14/D2/2/1/175/51.

99 D/H14/D2/2/2/175/11.

100 This also happened elsewhere. Wannell, ‘Patients’ relatives’, pp. 307–8; Smith, ‘Your very thankful inmate’, pp. 239–42.

101 Gerber, David, ‘Epistolary masquerades: acts of deceiving and withholding in immigrant letters’, in Elliot, Bruce, Gerber, David, and Sinke, Suzanne, eds., Letters across borders: the epistolary practice of international migrants (London, 2006), pp. 144–57Google Scholar.

102 As Michael Roper suggested of soldiers omitting danger in their letters to their mothers: The secret battle: emotional survival in the Great War (Manchester, 2009), pp. 63–8.

103 D/H14/D2/2/1/1116; D/H14/D2/2/1/905/12; D/H14/D2/2/1/836/6. Wannell, ‘Patients’ relatives’; Coleborne, ‘Families, patients and emotions’.

104 D/H14/D2/2/1/175/45, to superintendent. Also D/H14/D2/2/1/1092/15; D/H14/D2/2/1/901/10. This happened elsewhere: see Coleborne, Madness in the family, p. 82; Oonagh Walsh, ‘Lunatic and criminal alliances in nineteenth-century Ireland’, in Bartlett and Wright, eds., Outside the walls of the asylum, pp. 132–52.

105 As Oonagh Walsh found: Walsh, ‘Lunatic and criminal alliances’, p. 145.

106 D/H14/D2/2/2/178/7; D/H14/D2/2/2/212/16; D/H14/D2/2/1/975/13; D/H14/D1/2/1/936b/208; D/H14/D2/2/1/975/13.

107 D/H14/D2/2/1/918/3.

108 Wurgler, Andreas, ‘Voices from amongst the “silent masses”: humble petitions and social conflicts in early modern central Europe’, in van Voss, L.-H., ed., Petitions in social history (Cambridge, 2001), pp. 11–34Google Scholar, cited in King, Writing the lives of the English poor, p. 49.

109 Coleborne, ‘Families, patients and emotions’, p. 437.

110 Mooney, Graham and Reinarz, Jonathan, ‘Hospital and asylum visiting in historical perspective: themes and issues’, in Mooney, Graham and Reinarz, Jonathan, eds., Permeable walls: historical perspectives on hospital and asylum visiting (Amsterdam, 2009), pp. 7–30CrossRefGoogle Scholar, at p. 9.

111 D/H14/D2/2/1/761/5.

112 D/H14/D2/2/1/1254/56.

113 ‘A visit to the Criminal Lunatic Asylum’, Times, 13 Jan. 1865, p. 10.

114 Some family members expressed relief that they had encountered their relatives in a good condition.

115 Frederick Crawley's sister ‘was grieved to find him so low and ill’: D/H14/D2/2/1/698/7, to superintendent; D/H14/D2/2/1/761/5. See also Catharine Coleborne, ‘Challenging institutional hegemony: family visitors to hospitals for the insane in Australia and New Zealand, 1880s–1890s’, in Mooney and Reinarz, eds., Permeable walls, pp. 289–308, at p. 301; Reaume, Geoffrey, Remembrance of patients past: patient life at Toronto Hospital for the Insane, 1870–1940 (Oxford, 2000, p. 189Google Scholar.

116 D/H14/D2/2/1/936c/51, attendant's note.

117 D/H14/D2/2/1/1256/14, attendant's note.

118 William Orange, Reports of the superintendent and chaplain of Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum for the year 1875 (London, 1876), p. 44.

119 D/H14/D2/2/1/936b/57, to attendant; D/H14/D2/2/1/936c/10, from Dodwell to son. Reaume, Remembrance of patients past, p. 196.

120 D/H14/D2/2/1/1310, medical report.

121 D/H14/D2/2/1/969/8; D/H14/D2/2/1/1230/2; D/H14/D2/2/1/918/9, all to superintendent.

122 D/H14/D2/2/1/1102/70.

123 D/H14/D2/2/2/183/9, to superintendent.

124 D/H14/D2/2/1/659/9.

125 D/H14/D2/2/1/1705.

126 Not all families had room for a wage-earner, carer, or parent whose role in the home was rendered void by their committal to Broadmoor, and some refused to care for them should they be released. Jonathan Andrews found that some families were ‘less tolerant of the presence or return of allegedly mad infanticidals into their mix’: see ‘The boundaries of Her Majesty's pleasure: discharging child-murderers from Broadmoor and Perth Criminal Lunatic Department c. 1860–1920’, in Mark Jackson, ed., Infanticide: historical perspectives on child murder and concealment, 1550–2000 (Aldershot, 2002), pp. 216–48, at p. 244. My research shows that patients’ crimes did not always deter families from keeping in touch or seeking discharge. Space constraints prevent this being unpacked here.

127 Smith, ‘Living with insanity’; Smith, ‘Your very thankful inmate’, pp. 246–8. Families of the Irish insane highlighted their financial burdens: see Mauger, Cost of insanity, pp. 74 and 100.

128 For example, cases D/H14/D2/2/1/976/39; D/H14/D2/2/1/1085; D/H14/D2/2/1/974/3; D/H14/D2/2/1/366; D/H14/D2/2/1/1076; D/H14/D2/2/1/186; D/H14/D2/2/1/999/15.

129 Shepherd, ‘I am very glad and cheered’, p. 476.

130 D/H14/D2/2/1/1102/58, to superintendent; D/H14/D2/2/1/714/7, to superintendent.

131 Coleborne, ‘Families, patients and emotions’, p. 438.

132 D/H14/D2/2/1/186/26, to superintendent.

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135 Nelson, Family ties in Victorian England, pp. 110–11; Frost, Victorian childhoods, p. 18.

136 D/H14/D2/2/1/1284/28. See also D/H14/D2//2/1/714/7.

137 For example, D/H14/D2/2/1/976/39; D/H14/D2/2/1/1085; D/H14/D2/2/1/974/3; D/H14/D2/2/1/366; D/H14/D2/2/1/1076; D/H14/D2/2/1/186; D/H14/D2/2/1/999/15.

138 D/H14/D2/2/2/107/5–6.

139 Wright, ‘Discharge of pauper lunatics’, p. 98.

140 D/H14/D2/2/1/1738, from police constable to superintendent.

141 D/H14/D2/2/1/388/11; William Orange, Reports of the superintendent and chaplain of Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum for the year 1885 (London, 1886), p. 6.

142 For example, the following letters to the superintendent: D/H14/D2/2/1/905/33; D/H14/D2/2/366/177; D/H14/D2/2/1/975/2; D/H14/D2/2/2/107/5; D/H14/D2/2/2/100/25; D/H14/D2/2/2/398/41; D/H14/D2/2/2/164/19–20. See also Smith, ‘Your very thankful inmate’, p. 248.

143 D/H14/D2/2/2174/35.

144 Lucy Thompson's brother requested her recommittal after she attacked him and his wife: D/H14/D2/2/2/105. Similarly, D/H14/D2/2/1/1705.

145 D/H14/D2/2/2/146/6–7; D/H14/D2/2/1/1013.

146 D/H14/D2/2/1/1013.

147 Historians agree that families viewed asylums as a last resort. For example, Hilary Marland, ‘At home with puerperal mania: the domestic treatment of the insanity of childbirth in the nineteenth century’, in Bartlett and Wright, eds., Outside the walls of the asylum, pp. 45–65; Suzuki, Madness at home; Wright, ‘Discharge of pauper lunatics’.

148 Taylor, Steven, ‘“She was frightened while pregnant by a monkey at the zoo”: constructing the mentally-imperfect child in nineteenth-century England’, Social History of Medicine, 30 (2017), pp. 748–66Google Scholar, at p. 765.

149 Foucault, History of madness, p. 485.

150 Peter Bartlett and David Wright, ‘Community care and its antecedents’, in Bartlett and Wright, eds., Outside the walls of the asylum, pp. 1–16, at pp. 1–8, 13.

151 Marland, ‘At home with puerperal mania’; Suzuki, Madness at home.

152 D/H14/D2/2/1/1705.

153 D/H14/D2/2/2/105.

154 D/H14/D2/2/2/105/16; D/H14/D2/2/1/1565.

155 D/H14/D2/2/1/918/7, to superintendent.

156 Family members were invited to visit and stay with their dying relatives. Rules for the guidance of the officers of Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum (London, 1863).

157 D/H14/D2/2/1/973/5, to Thornley.

158 D/H14/D2/2/1/605/5.

159 D/H14/D2/2/1/739/11, to superintendent.

160 Strange, Death, grief and poverty in Britain, p. 50.

161 D/H14/D2/2/2/183/67; D/H14/D2/2/1/743/6; D/H14/D2/2/1/743; D/H14/D2/2/1/964/15.

162 D/H14/D2/2/1/936c/216.

163 D/H14/D2/2/1/936c/217.

164 D/H14/D2/2/2/178/36; D/H14/D2/2/1/973/9; D/H14/D2/2/1/1075/14; D/H14/D2/2/1/569/12; D/H14/D2/2/2/178/36; D/H14/D2/2/2/1075/14; D/H14/D2/2/2/183/67, all to superintendent.

165 D/H14/D2/2/2/2/183/67.

166 D/H14/D2/2/1/400; D/H14/D2/2/2/166/10; D/H14/D2/2/1/740/28; D/H14/D2/2/1/996/29–30; D/H14/D2/2/1/659/12; D/H14/D2/2/1/964/15; D/H14/D2/2/1/760/38 and 23; D/H14/D2/2/2/178/30.

167 Strange, Death, grief and poverty in Britain, p. 192.

168 Some family members thanked the superintendent for the service: D/H14/D2/2/1/918/22–3.

169 D/H14/D2/2/1/963/48–52, to superintendent.

170 D/H14/D2/2/2/178/30, to superintendent.

171 D/H14/D2/2/1/1689.

172 D/H14/D2/2/1/936c/216, to superintendent.