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Wilson, Margaret Borderland Minds
Boston Meador Publishing Company 1940 NO First Edition Hardcover Near Fine in Very Good dj
[nice copy, light shelfwear only, faint dust-soiling to top edge, one-time private owner's "Library of" stamp on endpapers and front pastedown; jacket lightly browned at spine and edges, minor smudging near top of front panel, miniscule chip at top of front panel, a few insignificant closed tears at edges of rear panel, faint owner name stamp on rear panel]. Memoir by "an Ex-Patient from Blackmoor," a fictionalized psychiatric hospital, probably in the eastern U.S. The author was a professional woman (self-described as "a writer and teacher of business reports") with a host of what would today be called "issues": her mother died when she was 13, mostly-absent father, difficult stepmother, close but difficult relationship with a slightly older brother, shocking sudden death of a young boyfried, had to support herself at an early age, suffered from "tonsilitis, laryngitis, ovaritis, and appendicitis," bla bla bla. Of course she had a "nervous breakdown" (because that was just what women did in those days), but her real mistake seems to have been poor choice in roommates, she having fallen in with a slightly older woman named Grace, described as "often moody and lonesome [and] a difficult person sometimes." Although Margaret describes their friendship as on the whole "quite harmonious," when she was going through a difficult recovery from gall bladder surgery (no doubt brought on by some other -itis), Grace basically deceived her into having herself "voluntarily" committed to Blackmoor. What was intended as a little R&R somehow turned into a five-year stay, chonicled by Ms. Wilson's book in exactly the sort of clear-eyed and relatively unemotional style you'd expect from a writer and teacher of business reports -- even when she's describing her own suicide attempt. "It is not my aim to give a 'sob story' of my experiences," she writes in her Foreword, but just "to give some idea how you might think, act, and feel in my place." (There will be a quiz.) The closest she gets to identifying "Blackmoor" is in the penultimate chapter, when she states that it was "conveniently situated in a healthful region, and is supported by one of the wealthiest counties in the United States."
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