5“training your girls”： Sir Charles Fox, quoted by Isaac Ray, “Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the AMSAII,” AJOI 15 （July 1858）： 131.
6“derangements of”： Edward H. Clarke, Sex in Education; or, A Fair Chance for Girls （Boston: James R. Osgood, 1875）， 18.
7“minds of limited”： AM, in Reports of the Board of Visitors and Trustees and of the Superintendent of the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane: June Session, 1847 （Concord, NH, 1847）， 21.
8“medicalization of female”： Carol Groneman, “Nymphomania: The Historical Construction of Female Sexuality,” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 19, no. 2 （Winter 1994）： 337–67, http://www.brown.uk.com/brownlibrary/GRONE.htm.
9“novel reading”： Table IV, “Supposed Exciting Causes of Insanity in Cases Admitted since December 1, 1864,” Tenth Biennial Report of the Trustees, Superintendent, and Treasurer of the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane at Jacksonville （Springfield, IL, 1866）， 20.
10“pernicious habit”： Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, quoted in Caroline Wazer, “Victorian Doctors Thought Reading Novels Made Women ‘Incurably Insane,’” History Buff, March 22, 2016, found in article of same name on Greenview Asylum website, April 12, 2016, https://greenviewasylum.wordpress.com/2016/04/12/victorian-doctors-thought-reading-novels-made-women-incurably-insane/.
11“a dreamy kind”： AM, in Reports of the Trustees and Superintendent of the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane: June Session, 1846 （Concord, NH, 1846）， 19.
12“improper literature”： Reverend Theophilus Packard Sr. to Deacon Pratt, early 1850s, quoted in History and Tradition of Shelburne, Massachusetts, ed. Mrs. Walter E. Burnham et al. of the History and Tradition of Shelburne Committee （1958）， 88.
13“very needlessly”： EP, TE, 38.
14“a tender brother”： EP, PHL, 129.
15“horrid and sickening”： Lyman E. De Wolf, “Public Institutions,” Daily Illinois State Register, February 21, 1867.
16“the peculiar taint”： AM, in Reports of the Board of Visitors and Trustees and of the Superintendent of the New Hampshire Asylum for the Insane: June Session, 1849 （Concord, NH, 1849）， 34.
17“notion and custard-pies”： EP, GD, 2:157.
18“all the viands”： “Excursion to Jacksonville,” Illinois Journal, January 11, 1867.
19“unearthly sounds”： EP, MPE, 95.
20“dear fragments”： EP, PHL, 60.
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1“submission is”： EP, GD, 2:10.
2“to secure her”： EP, PHL, 125.
3“That class of”： Ibid.
4“almost uninhabitable”： AM, “Sixth Biennial Report of the Trustees, Superintendent, and Treasurer of the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane at Jacksonville: December 1858,” Reports of the Illinois, 272.
5“the most pleasant”： SO, MO, 15, in PHL, page 369 in PDF.
6“lady-like civility”： EP, PHL, 62.
7“ought not to”： Superintendent of the Worcester State Lunatic Hospital, Annual Report, 1854, quoted in Gerald N. Grob, “Class, Ethnicity, and Race in American Mental Hospitals, 1830–75,” in Theory and Practice in American Medicine: Historical Studies from the Journal of the History of Medicine & Allied Sciences, ed. Gert H. Brieger （New York: Science History Publications, 1976）， 240.
8“may retard”： Ibid.
9“noisy, destructive”： AM, in “Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the AMSAII,” AJOI 14 （July 1857）： 79.
10“vulgar and obscene”： Case note from Worcester State Hospital （Case No. 4710, Case Book No. 28, p. 240, Record Storage Section, Worcester State Hospital, Worcester, MA）， 1854, quoted in Grob, “Class, Ethnicity, and Race,” 241.
11“low grade”： AM, in “Proceedings of the Twelfth,” 103.
12“highly civilized”： Elaine Showalter, The Female Malady: Women, Madness and English Culture, 1830–1980 （London: Virago, 1987）， 24.
13“We seldom meet”： Dr. Andrew Halliday, A General View of the Present State of Lunatics and Lunatic Asylums in Great Britain and Ireland （London: Underwood, 1828）， 79–80.
14“freedom”： The “exciting” cause of the madness of John Patterson （a pseudonym）， patient #295, Admissions Book, Staff Library （Bryce Hospital, Tuscaloosa, AL）， 1867, quoted in John S. Hughes, “Labeling and Treating Black Mental Illness in Alabama, 1861–1910,” The Journal of Southern History 58, no. 3 （August 1992）： 435, https://doi.org/10.2307/2210163.