Leonard Smith
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5225879 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Leonard Smith |
| NOMBRES | Leonard |
| APELLIDO | Smith |
| FIRMA | SMITH L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9949-3666 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1926 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
A Georgian tragedy of madness and mystery
In 1777 a strange, distracted young woman took up residence under a haystack in a village outside Bristol, attracting much local attention. ‘Louisa’ gained wider celebrity after the writer Hannah More publicised her plight in the national press. She subsequently spent several years in a private madhouse and then the lunatic ward of Guy’s Hospital, where she died in 1800. It was generally presumed that Louisa was of noble foreign birth and possibl…
The saga of James Lucett and the process for curing insanity, Part 1 (1811–14)
James Lucett, a London clerk, claimed possession of a secret remedy for curing chronic insanity. In 1813, he and the Irish surgeon Charles Delahoyde secured royal and aristocratic patronage to implement their ‘process’ and opened a private asylum. They aroused great public interest after apparently remarkable results with hitherto intractable patients from Bethlem and Hoxton. Delahoyde and Lucett attained brief celebrity, but within a year it was…
The saga of James Lucett and the process for curing insanity, Part 2 (1814–38)
Following the collapse of the Delahoyde and Lucett joint enterprise, James Lucett resumed practice on his own account. He continued to implement his ‘process’, promoting it as a unique cure for intractable cases of insanity. For two decades he pursued his activities, with varying success, at different locations in the London area. He maintained his public profile by extensive advertising, letters to newspapers and published pamphlets, extolling h…
Peter Barham, Outrageous Reason
Journal Article Peter Barham, Outrageous Reason: Madness and Race in Britain and Empire, 1780-2020 Get access Peter Barham, Outrageous Reason: Madness and Race in Britain and Empire, 1780-2020, Monmouth: PCCS Books, 2023. Pp. xvii + 248. £21.50. ISBN: 978 1 915220 39 4. Leonard Smith Leonard Smith Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMe…
Private Madhouses in England, 1640–1815
Conditions and Controversy
The final chapter focuses upon the issues and concerns highlighted by the private madhouse’s many vocal critics. Smith assembles evidence to demonstrate that internal standards and conditions in both London and provincial madhouses ranged across a wide spectrum, from the almost exemplary to the utterly scandalous. He examines the phenomenon of ‘wrongful confinement’, regarded in some quarters as the greatest of the evils associated with private m…
Alastair Robson, Unrecognised by the World at Large
In recent years there has been a notable absence of new biographical studies within the history of psychiatry and mental disorder. It might have been expected that the excellent Masters of Bedlam by Andrew Scull et al., published back in 1996, would have spurred other historians to evaluate the legacies of important nineteenth-century figures.1 For whatever reason this has not happened, perhaps partly due to the risks of being criticised for prod…
James E. Moran, Madness on Trial
James Moran has provided an important addition to the historiography of psychiatry and mental health provision in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His new book contributes significantly to shifting the historical emphasis away from asylums and towards extra-institutional approaches to the care of the insane. In focussing primarily upon evidence derived from hitherto under-researched civil trial proceedings, Moran builds upon the pioneerin…
‘Details on the Establishment of Doctor Willis, for the Cure of Lunatics’ (1796)
The ‘mad-doctor’ Dr Francis Willis achieved national and international celebrity following his successful treatment of King George III’s first major episode of insanity in 1788–9. At the time of his summons to attend the King, Willis was a well-established provincial practitioner and madhouse proprietor. An anonymous French visitor published a description of Willis’s Lincolnshire madhouse and his therapeutic practices in 1796. The translated text…
Introduction
Contemporary discussions around language, stigma and care in mental health, the messages these elements transmit, and the means through which they have been conveyed, have a long and deep lineage. Recognition and exploration of this lineage can inform how we communicate about mental health going forward, as reflected by the 9 papers which make up this special issue. Our introduction provides some framework for the history of communicating mental …
‘God grant it may do good two all’
Private madhouses made a significant contribution to the development of psychiatric practices in eighteenth-century England. Joseph Mason of Bristol, proprietor of a madhouse at Stapleton and then at nearby Fishponds, was part of a dynasty of successful and respected mad-doctors. A deeply religious man, his Christian ethics constituted the guiding force in his work with patients and interactions with their relatives. He was also an astute man of …
Insanity, Race and Colonialism
Despite emancipation from the evils of enslavement in 1838, most people of African origin in the British West Indian colonies continued to suffer serious material deprivation and racial oppression. Th
Welcome release
Deaths in the asylum could be interpreted as a sign of failure, particularly if they were related to the poor condition of those admitted, the spread of disease among patients, or the direct consequences of severe mental disorders. County asylum superintendents lamented the bad physical state in which many were sent to the asylum and the consequences for death rates. Due to limited consideration of environmental and sanitary matters before the 18…
The Wilsonian Challenge to International Law
After the Great War, Woodrow Wilson challenged the foundations of international law based on fully sovereign states. “Wilsonianism” as elaborated in the Fourteen Points, and in other speeches, rested on a logic that made a universalized liberal individual the locus of sovereignty in the new world order. The truly radical implications of Wilsonianism had no sterner critic than Robert Lansing, Wilson's secretary of state and one of the founders of …
A gentleman's mad-doctor in Georgian England
The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were a period of particular innovation in the history of British psychiatry. Enlightenment ideas brought a change in attitudes to insanity, reflected in the growing prevalence of psychologically based treatment techniques being implemented in both public and private institutions. A new group of practitioners, specializing in the treatment and management of insanity, was emerging. One of the most …
A Geographical History of Institutional Provision for the Insane from Medieval Times to the 1860s in England and Wales
Essay Review
Insanity and Ethnicity
There is currently much interest in how members of ethnic minorities experience the psychiatric system. In mid-Victorian provincial England, the presence of Jews as a small but significant minority was reflected in the population of lunatic asylums that served cities such as Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham. Case evidence suggests certain patterns of symptom presentation and behaviour among Jewish asylum patients. In some instances, delusion…
To cure those afflicted with the disease of insanity
Thomas Bakewell was a prominent, and rather colourful, lay proprietor of a private lunatic asylum in the early nineteenth century. He has perhaps been rather overlooked in the developing history of psychiatry and of the asylum. He wrote quite widely on mental disorder. His first book appeared in 1805. He later produced another, followed by numerous articles in popular literary journals. In the 1820s he became something of a 'popular psychiatrist'…
Eighteenth-century madhouse practice
Early Fireproof Housing in a Staffordshire Factory Village
THE WORK of the late Professor R. A. Cordingley, Dr. R. W. Brunskill, members of the Manchester School of Architecture, and others, has added greatly to our knowledge of vernacular house types.I Most scholars have, naturally, concentrated on rural rather than urban houses for the obvious reason that the survival of early types is higher in rural areas. They have also tended to direct their attention to the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries rath…
Philochorus F 67 and the Return of the Exiles
DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS in his study of the life and works of the orator Dinarchus found it necessary, in order to assess the genuineness or otherwise of the numerous speeches attributed to his subject, to establish first of all the dates and length of the orator's banishment from Athens. In the course of his researches (in which he shows a justifiable pride) he went to two main sources: an unquestionably genuine autobiographical speech delive…
The Chronology of Books XVIII-XX of Diodorus Siculus
Pier Paolo Vergerio
Journal Article Pier Paolo Vergerio : De Situ Veteris et Inclyte Urbis Rome Get access LEONARD SMITH LEONARD SMITH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XLI, Issue CLXIV, October 1926, Pages 571–577, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XLI.CLXIV.571 Published: 01 October 1926
The Chronology of Books XVIII-XX of Diodorus Siculus
Insanity, Race and Colonialism
Despite emancipation from the evils of enslavement in 1838, most people of African origin in the British West Indian colonies continued to suffer serious material deprivation and racial oppression. Th
The Wilsonian Challenge to International Law
After the Great War, Woodrow Wilson challenged the foundations of international law based on fully sovereign states. “Wilsonianism” as elaborated in the Fourteen Points, and in other speeches, rested on a logic that made a universalized liberal individual the locus of sovereignty in the new world order. The truly radical implications of Wilsonianism had no sterner critic than Robert Lansing, Wilson's secretary of state and one of the founders of …
Early Fireproof Housing in a Staffordshire Factory Village
THE WORK of the late Professor R. A. Cordingley, Dr. R. W. Brunskill, members of the Manchester School of Architecture, and others, has added greatly to our knowledge of vernacular house types.I Most scholars have, naturally, concentrated on rural rather than urban houses for the obvious reason that the survival of early types is higher in rural areas. They have also tended to direct their attention to the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries rath…
Pier Paolo Vergerio
Journal Article Pier Paolo Vergerio : De Situ Veteris et Inclyte Urbis Rome Get access LEONARD SMITH LEONARD SMITH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XLI, Issue CLXIV, October 1926, Pages 571–577, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XLI.CLXIV.571 Published: 01 October 1926
The Chronology of Books XVIII-XX of Diodorus Siculus
Philochorus F 67 and the Return of the Exiles
DIONYSIUS OF HALICARNASSUS in his study of the life and works of the orator Dinarchus found it necessary, in order to assess the genuineness or otherwise of the numerous speeches attributed to his subject, to establish first of all the dates and length of the orator's banishment from Athens. In the course of his researches (in which he shows a justifiable pride) he went to two main sources: an unquestionably genuine autobiographical speech delive…
Early Fireproof Housing in a Staffordshire Factory Village
THE WORK of the late Professor R. A. Cordingley, Dr. R. W. Brunskill, members of the Manchester School of Architecture, and others, has added greatly to our knowledge of vernacular house types.I Most scholars have, naturally, concentrated on rural rather than urban houses for the obvious reason that the survival of early types is higher in rural areas. They have also tended to direct their attention to the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries rath…
Eighteenth-century madhouse practice
To cure those afflicted with the disease of insanity
Thomas Bakewell was a prominent, and rather colourful, lay proprietor of a private lunatic asylum in the early nineteenth century. He has perhaps been rather overlooked in the developing history of psychiatry and of the asylum. He wrote quite widely on mental disorder. His first book appeared in 1805. He later produced another, followed by numerous articles in popular literary journals. In the 1820s he became something of a 'popular psychiatrist'…
Insanity and Ethnicity
There is currently much interest in how members of ethnic minorities experience the psychiatric system. In mid-Victorian provincial England, the presence of Jews as a small but significant minority was reflected in the population of lunatic asylums that served cities such as Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham. Case evidence suggests certain patterns of symptom presentation and behaviour among Jewish asylum patients. In some instances, delusion…
Essay Review
A Geographical History of Institutional Provision for the Insane from Medieval Times to the 1860s in England and Wales
A gentleman's mad-doctor in Georgian England
The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were a period of particular innovation in the history of British psychiatry. Enlightenment ideas brought a change in attitudes to insanity, reflected in the growing prevalence of psychologically based treatment techniques being implemented in both public and private institutions. A new group of practitioners, specializing in the treatment and management of insanity, was emerging. One of the most …
The Wilsonian Challenge to International Law
After the Great War, Woodrow Wilson challenged the foundations of international law based on fully sovereign states. “Wilsonianism” as elaborated in the Fourteen Points, and in other speeches, rested on a logic that made a universalized liberal individual the locus of sovereignty in the new world order. The truly radical implications of Wilsonianism had no sterner critic than Robert Lansing, Wilson's secretary of state and one of the founders of …
Welcome release
Deaths in the asylum could be interpreted as a sign of failure, particularly if they were related to the poor condition of those admitted, the spread of disease among patients, or the direct consequences of severe mental disorders. County asylum superintendents lamented the bad physical state in which many were sent to the asylum and the consequences for death rates. Due to limited consideration of environmental and sanitary matters before the 18…
Insanity, Race and Colonialism
Despite emancipation from the evils of enslavement in 1838, most people of African origin in the British West Indian colonies continued to suffer serious material deprivation and racial oppression. Th
‘God grant it may do good two all’
Private madhouses made a significant contribution to the development of psychiatric practices in eighteenth-century England. Joseph Mason of Bristol, proprietor of a madhouse at Stapleton and then at nearby Fishponds, was part of a dynasty of successful and respected mad-doctors. A deeply religious man, his Christian ethics constituted the guiding force in his work with patients and interactions with their relatives. He was also an astute man of …
‘Details on the Establishment of Doctor Willis, for the Cure of Lunatics’ (1796)
The ‘mad-doctor’ Dr Francis Willis achieved national and international celebrity following his successful treatment of King George III’s first major episode of insanity in 1788–9. At the time of his summons to attend the King, Willis was a well-established provincial practitioner and madhouse proprietor. An anonymous French visitor published a description of Willis’s Lincolnshire madhouse and his therapeutic practices in 1796. The translated text…
Introduction
Contemporary discussions around language, stigma and care in mental health, the messages these elements transmit, and the means through which they have been conveyed, have a long and deep lineage. Recognition and exploration of this lineage can inform how we communicate about mental health going forward, as reflected by the 9 papers which make up this special issue. Our introduction provides some framework for the history of communicating mental …
Alastair Robson, Unrecognised by the World at Large
In recent years there has been a notable absence of new biographical studies within the history of psychiatry and mental disorder. It might have been expected that the excellent Masters of Bedlam by Andrew Scull et al., published back in 1996, would have spurred other historians to evaluate the legacies of important nineteenth-century figures.1 For whatever reason this has not happened, perhaps partly due to the risks of being criticised for prod…
James E. Moran, Madness on Trial
James Moran has provided an important addition to the historiography of psychiatry and mental health provision in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His new book contributes significantly to shifting the historical emphasis away from asylums and towards extra-institutional approaches to the care of the insane. In focussing primarily upon evidence derived from hitherto under-researched civil trial proceedings, Moran builds upon the pioneerin…
Private Madhouses in England, 1640–1815
Conditions and Controversy
The final chapter focuses upon the issues and concerns highlighted by the private madhouse’s many vocal critics. Smith assembles evidence to demonstrate that internal standards and conditions in both London and provincial madhouses ranged across a wide spectrum, from the almost exemplary to the utterly scandalous. He examines the phenomenon of ‘wrongful confinement’, regarded in some quarters as the greatest of the evils associated with private m…
The saga of James Lucett and the process for curing insanity, Part 1 (1811–14)
James Lucett, a London clerk, claimed possession of a secret remedy for curing chronic insanity. In 1813, he and the Irish surgeon Charles Delahoyde secured royal and aristocratic patronage to implement their ‘process’ and opened a private asylum. They aroused great public interest after apparently remarkable results with hitherto intractable patients from Bethlem and Hoxton. Delahoyde and Lucett attained brief celebrity, but within a year it was…
The saga of James Lucett and the process for curing insanity, Part 2 (1814–38)
Following the collapse of the Delahoyde and Lucett joint enterprise, James Lucett resumed practice on his own account. He continued to implement his ‘process’, promoting it as a unique cure for intractable cases of insanity. For two decades he pursued his activities, with varying success, at different locations in the London area. He maintained his public profile by extensive advertising, letters to newspapers and published pamphlets, extolling h…
Peter Barham, Outrageous Reason
Journal Article Peter Barham, Outrageous Reason: Madness and Race in Britain and Empire, 1780-2020 Get access Peter Barham, Outrageous Reason: Madness and Race in Britain and Empire, 1780-2020, Monmouth: PCCS Books, 2023. Pp. xvii + 248. £21.50. ISBN: 978 1 915220 39 4. Leonard Smith Leonard Smith Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, UK [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMe…
A Georgian tragedy of madness and mystery
In 1777 a strange, distracted young woman took up residence under a haystack in a village outside Bristol, attracting much local attention. ‘Louisa’ gained wider celebrity after the writer Hannah More publicised her plight in the national press. She subsequently spent several years in a private madhouse and then the lunatic ward of Guy’s Hospital, where she died in 1800. It was generally presumed that Louisa was of noble foreign birth and possibl…
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