Gertrude Parker: a life in an asylum – 100 years ago

摘要

Gertrude Elline Parker was a long-term patient in Glenside Hospital, Bristol. She was born in January 1898 in the village of Stoke-Sub-Hamdon in Somerset. In 1905, the family moved to a pleasant three-storey house in Bristol, where Gertrude grew up. She was artistically gifted: she painted and