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Her health continued to decline and she found herself making a poor living as a seamstress and was eventually put into a mental hospital. She would suffer from mental illness for the rest of her life. Even during her poverty-stricken days, Hannah Chaplin was remembered to have brought endless gaiety and pleasures to her children.
[3] [4] As a result of mental illness, now thought to have been caused by syphilis, she was unable to continue performing from the mid-1890s. In 1921, she was relocated by her son Charlie to California, where she was cared for in a house in the San Fernando Valley until her death in August 1928. Early life.
Hannah Chaplin, mother of Charlie Chaplin, was a returning patient of Cane Hill. Cane Hill Hospital accommodated several notable patients in its history: Hannah Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin's mother, was admitted to the hospital on multiple occasions suffering the effects of syphilis and the negative effects of her husband's death, Charles Chaplin Sr.
In the early 1880s, the teenage Hannah left her childhood sweetheart, Charles Spencer Chaplin, for local conman, Sydney Hawkes. Believing Sydney to be a landed aristocrat, she headed to South ...
Jul 30, 2012 · Hannah Hill, Chaplin’s mother, was arguably the most influential woman in his life. Her struggles in order to give Chaplin a decent upbringing, only to suffer such terrible mental health problems, no doubt haunted him for the rest of his days.
In the fall of 1898, when Hannah Chaplin was diagnosed with syphilis, she had just been transferred from the Lambeth poorhouse to the Lambeth infirmary for emergency evaluation of an acute pyschosis characterized by disorientation, confusion, delusional thinking and an abnormal sensation in her head.
surviving transfer records from Hannah's two sub-sequent Cane Hill admissions in 1903 and 1905 mentions any other diagnosis which could account for her rapidly deteriorating mental condition. We also know that as her mental illness rapidly progressed from an acute to a chronic phase (ca. 1903-05), she began having intermittentvisual
