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Tables of Contents for Out of Her Mind
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
xi
from The Book of Margery Kempe
3
5
Margery Kempe
from ``On Behalf of the Insane Poor''
8
8
Dorothea Dix
from Modern Persecution, or Insane Asylums Unveiled
16
8
Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard
from Ten Days in a Mad-House, or Nellie Bly's Experiences on Blackwell's Island
24
36
Elizabeth Cochrane
``The Yellow Wallpaper''
32
18
Charlotte Perkins Stetson Gilman
``The Confessions of a Nervous Woman'' (Anonymous), 1896
50
5
Letters
55
5
Zelda Fitzgerald
from The Snake Pit
60
10
Mary Jane Ward
from Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl
70
7
``Renee,''
from Faces in the Water
77
7
Janet Frame
from The Bell Jar
84
9
Sylvia Plath
from The Woman Warrior
93
5
Maxine Hong Kingston
from The Loony-Bin Trip
98
8
Kate Millett
from By Her Own Hand
106
10
Signe Hammer
from Girl, Interrupted
116
4
Susanna Kaysen
from Searching for Mercy Street
120
10
Linda Gray Sexton
from The Beast
130
8
Tracy Thompson
from ``Black Swans''
138
13
Lauren Slater
from Willow Weep for Me
151
38
Meri Nana-Ama Danquah
``Isolation''
156
11
Martha Ellen Hughes
``Thorazine Shuffle''
167
9
Allie Light
``A Better Place to Live''
176
13
Maud Casey
Notes About the Contributors
189