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|title=Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England

|author=Sarah Wise

|publisher=Bodley Head

|date=October 2012

|summary=A perceptive study of how 'inconvenient' people were sometimes treated by their families in Victorian England, who found it all too easy to have them confined in lunatic asylums, generally for the most selfish of reasons.

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Many a family in Victorian England had a problem husband, wife, son or daughter whom they felt ought to be ‘locked away’. Only occasionally if ever was it for totally unselfish reasons connected with their mental health and well-being. More often than not it was to settle old scores, or so the family could get their hands on the victim’s fortune or business, or sometimes because, as the title of this book suggests, they were merely ‘inconvenient’.