There is a particular kind of woman who appears, again and again, in literature: beautiful, untameable, and mad. She is Bertha in Jane Eyre, confined to an attic. She is Ophelia, floating dead in a river. She is Esther Greenwood in The Bell Jar, sedated into silence. She is unnamed in The Yellow Wallpaper, hallucinating a woman crawling […] The post Mad Women and the Legacy of Female ‘Insanity’ in Literature first appeared on The Badger.
