A Blighted Life
A Blighted Life is an 1880 book by Rosina [Bulwer Lytton] chronicling the events surrounding her incarceration in a Victorian madhouse by her husband Edward [Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton] and her subsequent release a few weeks later. This was at a time when men could Lunatic asylum#Women in [psychiatric institutions|lock up socially inconvenient female relatives] in psychiatric institutions.