Founding Friends: Families, Staff, and Patients at the Friends Asylum in Early Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia (Studies in Eighteenth-Century America and the Atlantic World)

Description

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.