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Eloquent, compassionate, and utterly absorbing ... The Last Asylum is the best sort of memoir, transcending the purely personal to confront a larger social history -- Sarah Waters Beautiful ... it is hard to write well enough about this book because it is so good -- Susie Orbach Independent A wise, considered and timely book -- Hilary Mantel Moving, brave and intelligent -- Susan Hill The Times Superb. Riveting, insightful and relentlessly honest -- Darian Leader An impressive book, strong on narrative, deeply felt and measured in tone... The Last Asylum will stand the test of time. Literary Review

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Barbara Taylor's previous books include an award-winning study of nineteenth-century socialist feminism, Eve and the New Jerusalem; an intellectual biography of the pioneer feminist Mary Wollstonecraft; and On Kindness, a defence of fellow feeling co-written with the psychoanalyst Adam Phillips. She is a longstanding editor of the leading history journal, History Workshop Journal, and a director of the Raphael Samuel History Centre. She teaches History and English at Queen Mary University of London.

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