Malody

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  • maladie/malady: (French) disease → see ills two lines above
  • melody
  • menses
  • hysteria, "The Female Malady"
  • madness: in nineteenth-century Britain madness was first and foremost a female condition (cf Elaine Showalter's work).
  • (an anachronism, but....) Virginia Woolf: wrote her suicide note March 28th, 1941 -- just over 2 months after Joyce's own death. Woolf had a malady, and drowned herself in a river (ALP!)