Adeline T.P. Lunt, 1871

A grey and white floral pair of underwear is embroidered with the quote using wine and salmon colored thread
“the system says, ‘Until you cut yourself to my pattern abandon hope.'” Adeline T.P. Lunt 1871

 

Source:

Geller, Jeffrey L. & Harris, Maxine. Women of the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls 1840-1945. (New York: Anchor Books, 1994.) 116-123

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

%d bloggers like this:
close-alt close collapse comment ellipsis expand gallery heart lock menu next pinned previous reply search share star