Lock Her Up

By Tina Parker

"Tina Parker's haunting new collection Lock Her Up is a tribute, a beautifully rendered defense of women who throughout the late 1800s and mid-1900s were admitted into the Southwestern Lunatic Asylum in Virginia. It is an examination of the platitudes, misdiagnoses and treatments administered to

women who needed succor not restraint, under

• Language: English
• Publisher: Accents Publishing, LLC
• Release date: Mar 17, 2021
• ISBN: 9781936628759

Tina Parker

Tina M. Parker is a home-staging specialist with over 20 years’ experience. She operates her own home staging business, UpStage Home ReDesign.

Book preview

Copyright © 2021 by Tina Parker

All rights reserved

Printed in the United States of America

Accents Publishing

Editor: Katerina Stoykova-Klemer

Cover Image: sloughing off by Shari Weschler

Patient Record Image: Courtesy of the Library of Virginia

Library of Congress Control Number: 2021935236

ISBN: 978-1-936628-65-0

ISBN: 978-1-936628-75-9 (e-book)

First Edition

Accents Publishing is an independent press for brilliant voices. For a catalog of current and upcoming titles, please visit us on the Web at

www.accents-publishing.com

CONTENTS

The day they came for me

Part One: Admission

Pleas for Admission

Report of Commission: Mattie M. Roberts

Testimony

The Incident: Night

There is Room

Report of New Patient: Rachel Wells

They call me filthy, covered in vermin

Marriage

Tendencies: Knives

Answered Letters

Deposition: Emma Darby

Settling In

Please

Patient Record

What I Left Behind

Pleas for Release

Slow Heat