Mathematics and mental health in early nineteenth-century England

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Notes

¹ Alex D D Craik disagrees, considering the article to have been ‘probably’ by Solomon Atkinson, another Senior Wrangler of the period (Craik 2009, 13). But a handwritten note on the first page of a copy of the article held in Cambridge University Library attributes authorship to ‘J. Cowling (St. John's)’. Garland (1980, 185) concurs with this attribution.

² Thirty years after Tuke's book appeared, the reading-room was still very much part of the regime at the Retreat, and for better-educated patients, books were also available from York's two circulating libraries. Of the 112 patients undergoing treatment at the Retreat in 1842–43, however, only eight men and two women were recorded as having been employed in ‘reading, &c’ (Thurnam 1845, 47–48).

³ Conolly's Inquiry has become an important text for literary and historical studies of early psychiatry: important instances include Bourne Taylor 1988, 29–51, Small 1996, 48–57, and Shuttleworth 1996, 34–54.

⁴ Interestingly, the Anglo-Irish Conolly included priests among the creative artists who suffered through being too much given to imagination (Conolly 1830, 192).