Anna Agnew grew up in Moscow, Ohio and worked as an embroiderer and seamstress. She married David Agnew in 1870 and moved to Seymour, Indiana. In 1878, she was admitted to the Indiana Hospital for the Insane for “mania” and remained there for seven years.
In 1886, she published a book about her experience in a mental institution titled, From Under the Cloud: Or, Personal Reminiscences of Insanity. Her biography exposed the human side of mental illness and inspired readers to join in the advocacy against the abuses at mental health hospitals.
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