Showing results for "Asylum" in Historical

Confused and disoriented, Georgina Ferrars awakens in a small room in Tregannon House, a private asylum in a remote corner of England. She has no memory of the past few weeks. The doctor Maynard Straker tells her that she admitted herself under the name Lucy Ashton the day before and then suffered a seizure. When she insists he has mistaken her for someone else, Dr. Straker sends a telegram to her uncle, who replies that Georgina Ferrars is at home with him in London: "Your patient must be an imposter." Suddenly her voluntary confinement becomes involuntary....

Patty Miller, a paraplegic, is discovered at home barely clinging to life. Her infant son, already dead, lies on her chest still clinging to his mother. On the morning that Patty is found, she is not expected to survive but is taken to the hospital where she eventually recovers. But, severely emotionally disturbed, Patty soon finds herself a patient at Hillside Asylum.

Two young women, living centuries apart, both accused of madness, communicate across time to fight a common enemy...their doctors. Emilie begins a secret diary to document her terrifying experience and to maintain her sanity in the asylum for wayward Victorian girls. 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.

In 1886, a respectable young woman must acquire a husband. But Violet Pring does not want to marry. She longs to be a professional artist and live on her own terms. When her scheming mother secures a desirable marriage proposal from an eligible Brighton gentleman for her, Violet protests. Her family believes she is deranged and deluded, so she is locked away in Hillwood Grange Lunatic Asylum against her will. In her new cage, Violet faces an even greater challenge: she must escape the clutches of a sinister and formidable doctor and set herself free.

London, April 1882. When cool-headed Phyllida visits the World's End Investigation Bureau to offer a curious case concerning her fiancé, proprietor Lily Raynor is intrigued - and privately excited. Phyllida's fiancé, Wilberforce, is currently in an asylum in Brittany, after a tragic incident which resulted in the death of his father. Did he kill him on purpose - or was it an accident? Wilberforce's innocence looks increasingly in doubt when another murder happens at the asylum - and the evidence points to Wilberforce being the culprit.

1851, Angel Meadow Asylum. Dr. Rutherford, principal physician to the insane, is found dead, his head bashed in, his ears cut off, his lips and eyes stitched closed. The police direct their attention towards Angel Meadow's inmates, but to Jem Flockhart and Will Quartermain the crime is an act of calculated retribution, rather than of madness. To discover the truth Jem and Will must pursue the story through the darkest corners of the city.

Wayne McLair kommt vom Regen in die Traufe. Kaum ist er dem Gefängnis entronnen, hat er seinen Verstand verloren und wird zum Patienten in Prof. Belchleighs Nervenheilanstalt Aldermoor Asylum. Während der Gentlemangauner dort einen alten Freund wiedersieht, bereiten Quinn, Isabelle und Cait ihren gemeinsamen Coup vor und infiltrieren die Maschinenfeste Smokestack. Es stellt sich jedoch heraus, dass Prof. Belchleigh ganz besondere Pläne mit seinem prominenten Patienten hat, als McLair urplötzlich in die geheimnisvolle Abteilung K verlegt wird.

Wayne McLair kommt vom Regen in die Traufe. Kaum ist er dem Gefängnis entronnen, hat er seinen Verstand verloren und wird zum Patienten in Prof. Belchleighs Nervenheilanstalt Aldermoor Asylum. Während der Gentlemangauner dort einen alten Freund wiedersieht, bereiten Quinn, Isabelle und Cait ihren gemeinsamen Coup vor und infiltrieren die Maschinenfeste Smokestack. Es stellt sich jedoch heraus, dass Prof. Belchleigh ganz besondere Pläne mit seinem prominenten Patienten hat, als McLair urplötzlich in die geheimnisvolle Abteilung K verlegt wird.

1942, New Zealand. Edith’s been locked away for a long time. She was just five years old when she was sent to Seacliff Lunatic Asylum. Fifteen years later, she has few memories of her life before the asylum, but longs for one beyond it. When she survives a devastating fire that destroys her ward, Edith is questioned by the police and a young doctor, Declan Harris. Intrigued by his beautiful patient, Declan begins to doubt the official reasons for her incarceration. Is she truly mad - or could the impossible stories she told as a child actually be true?