Broadmoor Revealed: Victorian Crime and the Lunatic Asylum
by Mark Stevens
Broadmoor Revealed takes the reader on a journey round Victorian England’s Criminal Lunatic Asylum. Recounting personal stories from where true crime meets mental illness, the book takes in gunshot at Queen Victoria and poison in Brighton, as well as the artist Richard Dadd and lexicographer William Chester Minor. A hospital, not a prison: tales of insanity, murder and more.