The literature on the history of inebriate institutions is more extensive than
one might have supposed.  In addition to the Bretherton and McLaughlin articles
I would add Christopher Harding and Laura Wilken, "'The Dream of the Benevolent
Mind': The Late Victorian Response to the Problem of Inebriety," Criminal Justi
ce History 9 (1988): 189-207; G. Hunt, J. Mellor & J. Turner, "'Wretched, Hat-
less and Miserably Clad: Women & the Inebriate Reformatories from 1900 to
1913," British Journal of Sociology 40 (1989): 244-70; David Smith, "Drinking
and Imprisonment in Late Victorian and Edwardian England," Historie Sociale/
Social History 19 (1986): 161-76; Lucia H. Zedner, Women, Crime and Custody in
Victorian England (Oxford, 1991), ch. 6; Jenny Mellor, Geoffrey Hunt, Janet
Turner and Lynn Rees, "'Prayers and Piecework: Inebriate Reformatories in Eng-
land at the End of the 19th Century," Drogalkohol 3 (1986): 192-206; Beverley A
. Smith, "Ireland's Ennis Inebriates' Reformatory: A 19th Century Example of
Failed Institutional Reform," Federal Probation 53 (March 1989): 53-64.
The above studies, of course, only reflect the literature on Britain.
 
David W. Gutzke
Department of History
Southwest Missouri State University
 
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