Bedlam - by Jennifer Higgie (Paperback)

Name: Bedlam - by Jennifer Higgie (Paperback)
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The strange and tortured mind of the Victorian artist and patricide Richard Dadd, a painter of fairies who spent most of his life in psychiatric hospitals Jennifer Higgie presents a year in the life of Richard Dadd, infamous inmate of one of England's most notorious sanitariums, London's Bethlem Hospital, better known as Bedlam.
About the Author: Jennifer Higgie is an Australian writer who lives in London.
192 Pages
Fiction + Literature Genres, Biographical

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The strange and tortured mind of the Victorian artist and patricide Richard Dadd, a painter of fairies who spent most of his life in psychiatric hospitals

Jennifer Higgie presents a year in the life of Richard Dadd, infamous inmate of one of England's most notorious sanitariums, London's Bethlem Hospital, better known as Bedlam.

Incarcerated, Dadd thoughts return to a grand tour of Europe and the Middle East taken with his patron, Sir Thomas Phillips. The two men travelled through German forests, Alexandrian brothels and across the desert to the Nile. By the time they found themselves beneath the unforgiving sun of Syria and Palestine, Dadd's fraught mind was taxed to the limit with extraordinary images. He became stranger and more violent, changes his companion attributed to sunstroke. But somewhere on that journey, Dadd had become a devotee of the god Osiris. Shortly after his return to England in 1843, the god directed him to take a life, and Dadd was on the road to Bedlam.

At once jarringly acute and alarmingly askew, Dadd's voice is rendered with both empathy and acuity by Higgie. This is a poetic and considered portrait of an artist, as well as an intriguing mystery about how, and why, a mind can go so swiftly and dangerously awry.

About the Author

Jennifer Higgie is an Australian writer who lives in London. Her recent books include The Other Side: A Journey into Women, Art and the Spirit World and The Mirror & The Palette: Rebellion, Revolution & Resistance, 500 Years of Women's Self Portraits. She is also the author and illustrator of the children's book There's Not One; the editor of The Artist's Joke; and the host of the podcasts Bow Down: Women in Art History and Artist's Artists.

Dimensions (Overall): 7.8 Inches (H) x 5.08 Inches (W)

Weight: .81 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 192

Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres

Sub-Genre: Biographical

Publisher: Verso

Format: Paperback

Author: Jennifer Higgie

Language: English

Street Date: July 14, 2026

TCIN: 1006682128

UPC: 9781836742043

Item Number (DPCI): 247-51-8966

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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