Phyllis Bottome

Private Worlds

Novel set in a psychiatric hospital examining power, sanity, and human nature

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Phyllis Bottome
Phyllis Bottome

Bottome was a distinguished English novelist whose Private Worlds is an important novel of psychiatry and gender, and whose The Mortal Storm is a powerful early anti-Nazi novel. Her autobiography Search for a Soul is equally distinguished.

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