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Two young women, living hundreds of years aside, both accused of madness, talk across period to fight a enemy...their doctors. "It was the dog who found me." Such is the stark confession releasing the harrowing world that commences The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Young ladies as Emilie Autumn, a young musician on the verge of any bright career, efforts suicide by overdosing on the antipsychotics approved to take care of her bipolar disorder. Upon being determined, Emilie is revived and immediately incarcerated in a maximum-security psych ward, despite her protestations that she is not crazy, and can offer valid reasons for her actions if someone would only pay attention. Treated as a criminal, intensely medicated, and stripped of most freedoms, Emilie is refused communication with the outside world and comes prey to the unwelcome attentions of Dr. Clear, head of the hospital's psychiatry office. As Dr. Clear increases more predatory by the day, Emilie commences a secret diary to record her terrifying experience and maintain her sanity in this environment that may surely drive anyone mad. However when Emilie opens her notebook to discover a desperate notice from a young woman, imprisoned within an insane asylum in Victorian Great britain and bearing her own name and explanation, a portal to another world is blasted wide open. As these characters from days gone by continue to show up, Emilie escapes further into this secret alternate fact where sisterhoods are produced, romance between girl inmates blossoms, striped wallpaper writhes with spirits, and highly intellectual rats speak the Queen's British. But could it be real? Or is Emilie truly as mad as she is constantly told she is? The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Young ladies blurs severe reality and marvelous historical dream whilst issuing a scathing critique of society's treatment of women and the mental healthcare industry's treatment of its patients. Welcome to the Asylum. Have you been committed?
