Dr. Joseph Workman Character Analysis

Medical superintendent at the Toronto asylum. Dr. Workman began working at the asylum three weeks prior to Grace’s departure (and return to the Kingston Penitentiary). Dr. Workman, based on the letter he writes to Dr. Simon Jordan, appears sympathetic and upstanding. He believes that mental illness is the result of a “predisposing condition” and advocates for “gentle treatment” of Grace, whom he says was “a profitable and useful inmate” during their overlapping time at the asylum.