Founding Friends Families, Staff, and Patients at the Friends Asylum in Early Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia |
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| Author:
| D?Antonio, Patricia, Patricia |
| Series title: | Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61146-035-3 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2006 |
| Publisher: | Lehigh University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $101.00 |
Book Description:
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Founding Friends is a history of day-to-day life inside the Friends Asylum for the Insane in early nineteenth-century Philadelphia. By building on an extraordinarily rich data source--the daily diaries that the asylum's lay superintendents kept between 1814 and 1850--this book offers a new perspective on institutional life.
Founding Friends is a history of day-to-day life inside the Friends Asylum for the Insane in early nineteenth-century Philadelphia. By building on an extraordinarily rich data source--the daily diaries that the asylum's lay superintendents kept between 1814 and 1850--this book offers a new perspective on institutional life.