Exeter Girls: Letters From A Feeble-Minded School

From 1911 through the Great Depression hundreds of poor and uneducated young girls and women from broken homes, orphanages, jail cells, psychiatric hospitals and maternity wards across Rhode Island were diagnosed by doctors and declared by judges to be feeble-minded, and committed indefinitely to an institution for the mentally retarded.

• | Author: Jason R. Carpenter
• | Publisher: Curator Publishing
• | Publication Date: Apr 16, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 264 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0982504934
• | ISBN-13: 9780982504932