The setting is a psychiatric facility in the Deep South. Taylor, a contemporary woman, has just checked herself in for a rest at the Magdalene Women's Retreat. Three residents from the past welcome her: Mrs. Jetton, whose nervous breakdown led to her admission in 1952 to the Magdalene Psychiatric Hospital; Nora Braxton, whose father committed her in 1913 to the Magdalene Sanitarium for Insane Women; and Lillian Fontenot, whose philandering husband locked her up in 1868 in the Magdalene Ladies' Lunatic Asylum.
Inconvenient Women was presented in radio play style at the Historical Novel Society Conference's Historical Talent Revue on Saturday evening, June 9, 2007.
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