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| Original Title: | The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Emilie Autumn, Dr. Sharp, Sachiko, Anne, Emily, Count de Rothsberg, Madam Mournington, Dr. Montmorency Stockill, Dr. Francis Lymer, Jolie Rouge, Sir Edward, Violet, Veronica |
| Setting: | England The Asylum For Wayward Victorian Girls |
Emilie Autumn
Hardcover | Pages: 264 pages Rating: 4.02 | 3343 Users | 499 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls (Author Edition) |
| Author | : | Emilie Autumn |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | 1st edition and Author Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 264 pages |
| Published | : | December 15th 2009 by The Asylum Emporium |
| Categories | : | Horror. Nonfiction. Mental Health. Mental Illness. Health. Psychology. Gothic. Autobiography. Memoir |
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Two young women, living centuries apart, both accused of madness, communicate across time to fight a common enemy... their doctors."It was the dog who found me."
Such is the stark confession launching the harrowing scene that begins The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls as Emilie Autumn, a young musician on the verge of a bright career, attempts suicide by overdosing on the antipsychotics prescribed to treat her bipolar disorder. Upon being discovered, Emilie is revived and immediately incarcerated in a maximum-security psych ward, despite her protestations that she is not crazy, and can provide valid reasons for her actions if someone would only listen.
Treated as a criminal, heavily medicated, and stripped of all freedoms, Emilie is denied communication with the outside world, and falls prey to the unwelcome attentions of Dr. Sharp, head of the hospital's psychiatry department. As Dr. Sharp grows more predatory by the day, Emilie begins a secret diary to document her terrifying experience, and to maintain her sanity in this environment that could surely drive anyone mad. But when Emilie opens her notebook to find a desperate letter from a young woman imprisoned within an insane asylum in Victorian England, and bearing her own name and description, a portal to another world is blasted wide open.
As these letters from the past continue to appear, Emilie escapes further into this mysterious alternate reality where sisterhoods are formed, romance between female inmates blossoms, striped wallpaper writhes with ghosts, and highly intellectual rats speak the Queen's English.
But is it real? Or is Emilie truly as mad as she is constantly told she is?
The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls blurs harsh reality and magical historical fantasy whilst issuing a scathing critique of society's treatment of women and the mental health care industry's treatment of its patients, showing in the process that little has changed throughout the ages.
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Ratings: 4.02 From 3343 Users | 499 ReviewsCrit Based On Books The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls (Author Edition)
Terrifying to think that this, THIS, is the material being handed out by a self-proclaimed mental health advocate and one who clearly owns no conscience. A plethora of whining, self-pity, hate, bullying, negativity, falseness and full of ableism - Although not surprising coming from an author who lacks need for a wheelchair and yet puts themself on display in one. Did I mention fat shaming? Yes, bullying of those who are overweight, but this is okay apparently for the author (who is also theThis book is ridiculous. Not even in a good way. I will give you a blow-by-blow summary, but first, a taste! The book is filled with the somewhat edited ramblings of a drama queen. When she voluntarily checks herself into the hospital, she expected something along the lines of this:Instead, she got:Please fill out this form!When she didnt receive the grand fanfare she anticipated, she threw a fit and wrote a crappy book about it. Then theres some crap about Alice in Wonderland and some other
The book and author are ridiculous. Sadistic to some extent with the whole obsessive compulsive need to lie frantically about experiences which are deadly grave for so many. The fact is, in the beginning (when the book was first published) Autumn claimed this book to be her memoir mixed with half fictional tale (Emily with a y). She never stated it too just be picks from her experiences, no! This was directly published from her spiral notebook journal she penned in an asylum (metal ring bound
I was enjoying the book until it became kinda repetitive: the old victorian girl who is inside of the asylum and Emilie who is in the same asylum but now. At the beginning both stories were alluring but at 50% in the book it began to be more of the same. While it is true that in the victorian girl you can see a critic of the society of the epoque that put many women through the grinder because they weren't comploant, we soon find the story somewhat lags describing tortures but not offering much.
I would like to say that I was unable to relate to most of Emilie Autumn's harrowing tale of the time she spent in a mental institution for trying to kill herself and the parallel story that she created about a young girl in the Victorian era who was also sent to a mental institution. I would like to say that I never thought of killing myself. I would like to say that I never attempted to kill myself before. On most days I forget that the event ever happened. I have masterfully convinced myself
Before anyone jumps down my throat, let me just begin by saying that I'll provide quotes from the book just to show that I'm not talking out of my ass here. Ready? Okay. This book makes me so, so angry. As both a psych student and someone who was diagnosed with depression, I dived into this book expecting a riveting tale, an account of what goes on into a mental institution. But what I found was a story riddled with misinformation, exaggeration, and all round pretentiousness. And yes, I'm aware
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