The Asylum of Forgotten Souls
The iron gates of Blackwood Asylum groaned on rusted hinges as Eleanor stepped through them, her valence clutched in gloves thin enough to be insulting. It was November, 1888, and the London fog had already begun its slow descent like a grey shroud over the East End. She was twenty-six, widowed (not by death but by poverty — her husband's family had disinherited him for marrying a woman with...
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