The quickening maze
Commitment and detention
Mentally Ill Persons
Psychiatric Hospitals
English Poets
Mentally ill
Authors, fiction
London (england), fiction
Mental health
Fiction, psychological
Fiction, historical, general
Literature
Social conditions
History
Fiction
Based on real events in Epping Forest on the edge of London around 1840, The Quickening Maze centres on the first incarceration of the great nature poet John Clare. After years struggling with alcohol, critical neglect and depression, Clare finds himself in High Beach Private Asylum - an institution…
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