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Stranger than the Rest Item Info
- Title:
- Stranger than the Rest
- Description:
- Stranger than the Rest is the product of a creative writing project led by Bill Turner at the Cherry Knowle mental hospital in Sunderland. Turner worked with patients and encouraged them to express their feelings and ideas on paper. The result was this collection of poetry, prose, and illustrations, ranging in length, style, and subject matter. Some of the patients shared their experiences in the psychiatric hospital or memories from home, while others wrote fictional narratives.
- Publisher:
- Durham Voices
- Creator:
- Patients at Cherry Knowle Hospital Sunderland
- Contributor:
- Moira Johnston Bill Turner Evelyn King Doris Foster Edward L. King Joy Dugdale Derek Gillon Harland Jonathan Bradshaw Rita Jarvis Jean Adam Elizabeth Carr Betty Gallagher Violet Hume Jackie Naomi Hankinson Lucy Milton Doris West C.R. Keith Pattison Derek G. Harland Jean Adam Doris Millar Sydney Adams
- Date:
- 1986
- Type:
- text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Subjects:
- mental health autobiography life in a hospital isolation memory
- Latitude:
- 54.7526621976852
- Longitude:
- -1.3393821730307
- Location:
- Peterlee
- Language:
- English
- Is a Part of:
- Trades Union Congress Library Collections, FWWCP Collection, Region 2 North East, Box 1
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Stranger than the Rest", Digital Collections, FWWCP
- Reference Link:
- https://library.bc.edu/ds/fwwcp/items/fwwcp02ne010022.html