Author’s Note

The Lost Women of Azalea Court is a work of fiction. The Northampton State Hospital treated patients from 1858 to 1993, but Azalea Court and its inhabitants exist only on these pages. Names, characters, places, and events are either the product of my imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or to businesses or institutions, is coincidental and unintended.