![]() ![]() College Ave., Jacksonville, IL 62650 on September 10 at 7 p.m.īook signing on September 11, 5 – 7 pm at Our Town Books, 64 East Central Park Plaza, Jacksonville, IL 62650. For more information about the workshops and the other authors go to īradette Michel will discuss her debut novel, For Their Own Good at the Jacksonville Public Library, 201 W. ![]() The program will be located at the Coral Springs Center for Performing Arts, Room A & B, 2855 Coral Springs Drive, Coral Springs, FL. Touted as havens for patients receiving innovative treatments, the hospitals confined society’s powerless, whether insane or not.īradette Michel will be presenting a literary workshop, part of the Coral Springs Festival of the Arts, at 11:30 am, Thursday, March 17. Inspired by true events, For Their Own Good reveals the murky, often terrifying world of nineteenth century insane asylums. His compassion for the women under his care, and his shock at the perversity of their treatment propel him into actions no one could have predicted. When New York physician, Adam Fletcher takes the position of medical doctor at the Illinois State Hospital for the Insane in 1857, he quickly realizes the asylum is not a place of healing. For Their Own Good Bradette Michel Nineteenth century women are committed to an insane asylum for reasons that have nothing to do with their sanity ![]()
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