I visited an insane asylum recently and the tour guide said that women who were committed by their husbands could only be released by their husbands - so if he died while she was in there, she was doomed to stay.

by mother_o_kittens

Is this historically accurate? I can’t find any information online or at the library to back this up and it is bugging me! Thinking about women being stuck there, just because her husband committed her for something stupid like “overactive menstruation” or simply talking back too much...