He cited various stories about real people and one of these was about a French woman in the 19th century who spent 15 years in an asylum, even though she was completely sane.
He argues that throughout history, psychiatry‚ even when it didn’t mean to be‚was oppressive because there was an imbalance of power between the patient and the psychiatrist. I was reading a book by Jeffrey Masson called Against Therapy. "I wanted to write children’s fiction, but the MA course I subsequently took in creative writing at Lancashire was geared to adult writing, so I started Wildthorn then. "The first thing I did was to sign up for a short writing course and I remember getting onto the train feeling very depressed but coming back from the course completely ecstatic as I had discovered what I was looking for. "I wasn’t terribly happy at that time and decided to put my effort into something that I had always wanted to try, which was writing," she says.
Eventually, she is able to assert her own character, wishes and lifestyle, including a love affair with another woman.Įagland, who is 57, decided to leave teaching after she turned 50 to focus on writing. As the story develops, we discover the mystery behind her incarceration and, through her experiences, we see Louisa grow into womanhood. She instead finds herself incarcerated in an asylum where she is given a different identity. The story begins with her journey to "Wildthorn", where Louisa believes that she is going to spend a few weeks acting as a companion to a young lady. The main character, Louisa Cosgrove, is a wilful child who announces as a teenager that she wants to follow in her father’s footsteps by becoming a doctor. OL19942050W Page_number_confidence 95.28 Pages 362 Ppi 300 References School Library Journal, November 2010 Publisher's Weekly, September 2010 Booklist, September 2010 Bulletin (Center for Children's books), October 2010 Teacher Librarian, October 2010 Kirkus Review, September 2010 Republisher_date 20191211191319 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 400 Scandate 20191209042734 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9780547370170 Tts_version 3.Wildthorn, the debut novel from Jane Eagland, formerly a head of English at a grammar school in Lancashire, is set in the 1870s, at a time when the Victorian era was slowly changing into the modern. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 01:15:05 Boxid IA1733702 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
0 kommentar(er)
