Great Yarmouth Workhouse

Great Yarmouth Workhouse is the former workhouse of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. It turns up in I MISS LORINA BULWER (Shaun Usher): The workhouse is where the whole artefact was made and where she spent her last decade or more; the letter’s obsessive naming of Yarmouth streets and people is the view from inside it.

At a glance

Source	Author	Role	In one line
I MISS LORINA BULWER	Shaun Usher	setting	Bulwer was admitted to the workhouse by 1901, among 515 other residents, and held in its ‘Female Lunatic Ward’.

I MISS LORINA BULWER — Shaun Usher (2024)

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records show that by 1901, Bulwer had joined 515 others to become a resident of the of Great Yarmouth Workhouse in its ‘Female Lunatic Ward’.

• Role: setting
• In the article: Bulwer was admitted to the workhouse by 1901, among 515 other residents, and held in its ‘Female Lunatic Ward’. She stitched her 12ft embroidered letter there and died there of influenza in 1912, still an inmate. Her letter also refers to ‘this house’ as full of tramps and calls it a ‘brothel workhouse’.
• Why it matters: The workhouse is where the whole artefact was made and where she spent her last decade or more; the letter’s obsessive naming of Yarmouth streets and people is the view from inside it. The text gives no street address, so the exact site is not established here.