“A History of Loneliness”

From historian Fay Bound Alberti’s book A History of Loneliness is an excerpt in the BBC’s HistoryExtra as “The invention of loneliness: why being ‘unhappy alone’ is a surprisingly modern idea.” The author notes that the transition from “oneliness” to loneliness traverses three centuries, eighteenth to twentieth. Mentioned are Thomas Turner’s diaries, Queen Victoria, Carl Jung, Virginia Woolf, May Sarton, and Sylvia Plath.

URL: https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/invention-loneliness-mental-health-lonely-history-modern-unhappy-self-isolation-alone/