The Painted Bridge : A Novel (Paperback)

from chrirob

Anna Palmer is the wife of a prospering, older preacher...until he imprisons her in an insane asylum against her will. While Anna comes to terms with what her husband has done to her she must also try to bear the agonizing "treatments" being forced upon her. Along this harrowing journey, Anna fin...

from Beamis12

I have long had a fascination for the Victorian age, the hypocrisy behind the veneer of steadfast morality, and this book certainly provided much in the way of mistreatment and hypocrisy. The powerlessness of woman in this time period, where they could be sentenced or just committed to what was c...

from spbooks

An excellent read. There was real tension as Anna tries to survive and escape from her confinement. The Victorian culture was very well described and I learned a lot about what that period believed about mental health and its treatment. The experiments by a doctor that tries to work out how to re...

from Cariola

The Painted Bridge is set in Victorian London. Anna, recently married to a much older vicar whom she barely knows, finds herself confined to a mental asylum for the supposedly crazy act of leaving home to go to the aid of shipwreck victims. No matter how hard she tries, she can't convince anyone ...

from amandacb

Anna's husband has her commited, against her will, to a "private" asylum in London. Luckily for Anna, there is a physician who is embarking upon a theory he has about photographing subjects in order to diagnose their level of psychosis. While his theory is ultimately (and rightly) debunked, he do...