During this time period there was a rise in the number of women admitted into insane asylums. Women were placed in mental instutions for not following the tradions of a victorian women. Women had minimal rights during this time period. Women would be diagnosed insane for reasons like, religious excitement, epilepsy,and suppressed menustruation. These labeled women as insane and this was heavenly influenced by social attitudes toward women. In "Porphyria's Lover" we see the insanity but we see it in the male and not the the woman.

Pouba, Katherine, and Ashley Tianen. “Lunacy in the 19th Century: Women’s Admission to Asylums in United States of America.” Minds.wisconsin.edu, 1 May 2006, minds.wisconsin.edu/handle/1793/6687.

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