Susannah Wilson is a scholar of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French culture and literature, with a specialist interest in women's writing; psychoanalytical theory; the history of psychiatry in France; social history; and 'self-writing' (autobiography, memoir, correspondence). She studied for a BA (Hons) in French Studies and a Masters degree at the University of Manchester, and completed her D.Phil. in French at Jesus College, Oxford, in 2005.

her vast knowledge of the contemporary judicial system helps to contextualize them for the uninitiated reader.

• LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ; NOTE ON PRESENTATION ; INTRODUCTION ; 1. Women's writing and women's incarceration: historical and theoretical approaches ; 2. Memoires d'une alienee by Hersilie Rouy: 'Ou est la folie la-dedans?' ; 3. Marie Esquiron: 'Ma triste et injuste sequestration' ; 4. Pauline Lair Lamotte: 'Je sens que la verite est la' ; 5. Camille Claudel: 'Du reve que fut ma vie, ceci est le cauchemar' ; CONCLUSION ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX

Susannah Wilson is a scholar of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French culture and literature, with a specialist interest in women's writing; psychoanalytical theory; the history of psychiatry in France; social history; and 'self-writing' (autobiography, memoir, correspondence). She studied for a BA (Hons) in French Studies and a Masters degree at the University of Manchester, and completed her D.Phil. in French at Jesus College, Oxford, in 2005.

her vast knowledge of the contemporary judicial system helps to contextualize them for the uninitiated reader.

• LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ; NOTE ON PRESENTATION ; INTRODUCTION ; 1. Women's writing and women's incarceration: historical and theoretical approaches ; 2. Memoires d'une alienee by Hersilie Rouy: 'Ou est la folie la-dedans?' ; 3. Marie Esquiron: 'Ma triste et injuste sequestration' ; 4. Pauline Lair Lamotte: 'Je sens que la verite est la' ; 5. Camille Claudel: 'Du reve que fut ma vie, ceci est le cauchemar' ; CONCLUSION ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX