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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Melbourne and Madwomen
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'On 7 September 1891, a young woman named Jessie A. found two unfamiliar doctors entering her bedroom. They would have been middle-aged men who regularly tended to the inhabitants of rural Alexandra. Her father had called them to the house to certify his suspicion: that Jessie was 'not right in the head'.' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon Voiceworks no. 105 Spring 2016 16810886 2016 periodical issue 2016 pg. 49-54
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