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#Repost Deborah Harkness FB page SHADOW OF NIGHT Read Along, chapters 34, 35, & 36 “No,” Hubbard said softly, “he is in Bedlam with his sister and Christopher Marlowe.” Bedlam was an oubliette in all but name—a place for forgetting, where the insane were locked up with those interred by their own families on some trumped-up charge simply to be rid of them.” -SHADOW OF NIGHT “Bedlam, or Bethlem, was founded in 1247 as a hospital for the poor by the Order of St. Mary of Bethlehem. By the fifteenth century, it had gradually come to house the insane. Still functioning as such more than six hundred years later, it is Europe’s oldest surviving psychiatric hospital. When Diana visited in 1591, she was admitted by the master in charge of the institution at the time, Master Sleford, and the hospital was still on its original site, located just outside the City walls near Bishopsgate. Diana saw for herself the appalling conditions of the place, so notorious that the name Bedlam entered the English language as a word meaning uproar and confusion.” -THE WORLD OF ALL SOUL, pg 219 👉Let’s discuss. What did you notice when you read these chapters? In the comments below, please share your observations, favorite quotes, musings, questions, half-baked ideas, or deep dives with the rest of us! If this is your first time reading SON, what did you think? What are your questions? If this is your 2nd, 3rd…100th time reading SON, did you discover anything new? Did you discover anything new with your dive into THE WORLD OF ALL SOULS? 👉Other terms from these chapters to search in THE WORLD OF ALL SOULS, or topics to put into your Internet search engine: Characters: Queen Elizabeth, Sir Walter Raleigh, Bess Throckmorton, William Cecil, Louisa, Kit Locations: Greenwich Palace, Bedlam Cat #SONRTR2022 #SONch34 #SONch35 #SONch36 #TheWorldofAllSouls Image of Bedlam from the Civitatis Orbis Terrarum, enlarged to show detail. Bedlam is circled in blue. Drawing by Colleen Madden, taken from THE WORLD OF ALL SOULS https://www.instagram.com/p/ClrGnfAIBsC/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=