Genre:

Short Fiction, Serial

Subjects:

Disease, Mental Illness, Gender

    After hearing of Edward Holdsworth's marriage in Canada, Phillis Holman, who has been told by her cousin Paul Manning that Holdsworth loves her, falls into a depression which develops into 'a brain fever' that threatens to end her life (204). She partially recovers only after treatment from a number of doctors and the constant solicitude of her family and friends.

Reprinted:

Gaskell 1865