Madwomen in Edinburgh

An alert from the Edinburgh International Science Festival:

Madwomen in the Attic
Venue: Ghillie Dhu
April 2, 5:30 PM

The violent and feral Bertha Rochester in Jane Eyre, the mysterious Woman in White whose escape from an asylum begins Wilkie Collins’s gripping thriller, and the terminally delusional Emma in Madame Bovary... All famed for their dubious grasp on sanity but were they really mad? Would we today recognise them as mentally ill or were our heroines merely misunderstood, not to mention a tad inconvenient?
Journalist and broadcaster Vivienne Parry, lecturer in contemporary fiction Sarah Dillon and psychiatrist Dr Raj Persaud diagnose our troubled heroines in an evening of scientific and literary detective work.