Feversham's Academy of Young Womens' Correctional Education

Professor Feversham has a reputation for reforming troubled young women of the lower classes, and his treatments for praefocatio matricis—female hysteria—are renowned in scientific circles. He is Lord Elliston's last hope for regaining control of his wayward daughter. But what will the treatments mean for Emily?

Constance Brewer is facing nine years in Newgate Prison for theft with no hope for early release, but the renowned Professor Feversham offers her a chance. If she completes his rehabilitation regimen she will be released and her record cleared; the only requirement is that she obey him without question.Will Constance submit to his discipline, or will she remain in prison until she is an old maid?

Professor Feversham needs a subject for his new hysteria prognosticator, and fortune offers him Miss Eleanor Stanley, a young woman afflicted with neurasthenia and hysteria. Eleanor is grateful that the Professor has agreed to take her as a patient—until she is strapped down to a table and realizes just what all those probes and clamps are for. Will Eleanor submit to being his lab subject?

The wild, young governess cannot afford to lose her position in Baronet Dowling's household. The promise of Professor Feversham's treatments is all that stands between her and dismissal. Will the hysteria treatments enable Sophia to control her desperate urges, or will stronger methods be required? Will the young governess find the relief she craves with the Professor's latest inventions?

Professor Feversham tests his latest invention - the violet ray device - on a young patient suffering from neurasthenia.

Lord Derriwell is to be made a cabinet minister and must be free of any whiff of scandal, but his daughter seems determined to dash all his hopes. When Derriwell drops them off with his old friend Feversham, it is with instructions that the professor may do anything at all to make the girls obedient. Will Feversham’s therapies convince them to submit, or are they beyond even his ability to reform?