Hysteria

*This machine was the Professor’s ultimate achievement. No woman who had lain on this table had yet been able to withstand it.*

Lord Elliston is at his wit's end with his daughter Emily. Nothing he tries seems to make the slightest impact on her deplorable behavior, and when she is caught stealing a handkerchief he knows that it is time for desperate measures. One name comes up again and again - Professor George E. Feversham. The founder of *Feversham's Academy of Young Women's Correctional Education* has a reputation for reforming troubled young women of the lower classes, and his treatments for *praefocatio matricis* - female hysteria - are renowned in scientific circles. It seems that the Professor is his last, best hope for regaining control of his daughter. But what will the treatments mean for Emily?