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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1927 and eighteen-year-old Mary Engle is hired to work as a secretary at a remote but scenic institution for mentally disabled women called the Nettleton State Village for Feebleminded Women of Childbearing Age. She's immediately in awe of her employer--brilliant, genteel Dr. Agnes Vogel. Dr. Vogel had been the only woman in her class in medical school. As a young psychiatrist she was an outspoken crusader for women's suffrage. Now, at age...
2) Jane Eyre
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The literary masterpiece, introduced by contemporary novelist-of-manners Diana Johnson, is a quintessential love story where a bright, lonely, and steadfast young woman finds mystery, sorrow, and true love with the inimitable Mr. Rochester.
3) Jane Eyre
Publisher
A & E Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Jane Eyre, a mistreated orphan, learns to survive by relying on her independence and intelligence.
4) Jane Eyre
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Jane Eyre is the orphan girl who secures a position as a governess to the ward of Edward Rochester, lord of an English manor house call Thornfield, whose halls hide a dark and sinister secret.
5) Jane Eyre
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess and soon finds herself in love with her employer who has a terrible secret. Charlotte Bronte's novel about the passionate love between Jane Eyre, a young girl alone in the world, and the rich, brilliant, domineering Rochester has enthralled every kind of reader, from the most critical and cultivated to the youngest and most unabashedly romantic, ever since...
7) Marnie
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
A woman robs her employers and changes her identity. When her next boss catches her, he forces her to marry him.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Pushing away her devoted husband, a once-successful writer moves back into her bohemian childhood home, where she struggles to come to terms with the mental illness that has overshadowed her life.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jaquira DÃaz writes an unflinching account of growing up as a queer biracial girl searching for home as her family splits apart and her mother struggles with mental illness and addiction. From her own struggles with depression and drug abuse to her experiences of violence to Puerto Rico's history of colonialism, every page vibrates with music and lyricism"--
10) Emelie
Publisher
Dark Sky Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
As their parents head out for a date in the city, the three young Thompson children immediately take to their new babysitter Anna, who seems like a dream come true. But as Anna's interactions with them take on a more sinister tone, the kids realize that their caretaker may not be who she claims to be. And soon it's up to big brother Jacob to protect his siblings from the increasingly nefarious intentions of a very disturbed woman.
11) Barefoot
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The 'black sheep' son of a wealthy family meets a young psychiatric patient who's been raised in isolation her entire life. He takes the naive young woman home for his brother's wedding to convince his family that he's finally straightened out his life. She impresses his prim and proper family with her genuine (if unstable) charm, and along the way they fall into improbable love.
12) Life sentences
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2006, 2005
Language
English
Description
"A genetic researcher in Boston is driven to find a cure for the rare disease that claimed the life of her younger brother. But her progress is halted when her mentally unstable sister is discovered missing from her California home"--Provided by publisher.
14) Stella Maris
Author
Series
Passenger volume 2
Language
English
Description
The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Road returns with the second volume of The Passenger series: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. 1972, BLACK RIVER FALLS, WISCONSIN: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the University...
16) Jane Eyre
Author
Series
Publisher
Udon Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In early nineteenth-century England, an orphaned young woman accepts employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall, a country estate owned by the mysteriously remote Mr. Rochester.
Publisher
Hbo Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Season two picks up with Amy immersed in gathering evidence against Abaddonn. In the season's eight episodes, Amy enlists the help of journalist Jeff Flender, and as they work together on a searing expose, she dreams of a bigger life and develops romantic yearnings for the handsome, well-travelled reporter.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When Suzanne Scanlon was a student at Barnard in the 90s, grieving the loss of her mother-feeling untethered and swimming through inarticulable pain-she made a suicide attempt at twenty years old that landed her in the New York State Psychiatric Institute. After nearly four years and countless experimental treatments, Suzanne left the ward on shaky legs. In the decades it took her to recover from the experience, Suzanne came to understand her suffering...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
An author struggling with a creative block and depression during her pregnancy tells the story of how an obsession with abstract expressionist painter Agnes Martin helped her face up to the joys and challenges of impending motherhood.