Under the law in Texas, she was sentenced to life imprisonment, but, after a retrial, was committed to a mental hospital. Guy de Maupassant, in his novel Mont-Oriol (1887) described a brief postpartum psychotic episode. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, in her short story The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) described severe depression with psychotic features starting after childbirth, perhaps similar to that experienced by the author herself. Stacey Slater, a fictional character in the long-running BBC soap-opera EastEnders had postpartum psychosis in 2016, and was one of the shows biggest storylines that year. Legal status
Postpartum psychosis, especially when there is a marked component of depression, has a small risk of filicide. In acute manic or cycloid cases, this risk is about 1%. Most of these incidents have occurred before the mother came under treatment, and some have been accidental. Several nations including Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, and Italy recognize postpartum mental illness as a mitigating factor in cases where mothers kill their children. In the United States, such a legal distinction was not made as of 2009, and an insanity defense is not available in all states.The United Kingdom has had the Infanticide Act since 1922. Books written about postpartum psychosis and postpartum bipolar disorder
Apart from the two monographs mentioned in the text (references 1 and 86), the following books have been published about these psychoses:

Ripping, Dr (1877) Die Geistesstörungen der Schwangeren, Wöchnerinnen und Säugenden. Stuttgart, Enke. Knauer O (1897) Über Puerperale Psychose für practische Ärzte. Berlin, Karger. Twomey T (2009) Understanding Postpartum Psychosis: A Temporary Madness. Westport, Praeger.
Research into puerperal mania is, therefore, not the study of a disease-in-its-own right, but an investigation into the childbearing triggers of bipolar disorder. Psychoses triggered in the first two weeks after the birth – between the first postpartum day (or even during parturition  until about the 15th day – complicate approximately 1/1,000 pregnancies. The impression is sometimes given that this is the only trigger associated with childbearing. But there is evidence of four other triggers – late postpartum, prepartum, post-abortion  and weaning. Marcé, widely considered an authority on puerperal psychoses, claimed that they could be divided into early and late forms; the late form begins about six weeks after childbirth, associated with the return of the menses. His view is supported by the large number of cases in the literature with onset 4–13 weeks after the birth, mothers with serial 4-13 week onsets and some survey evidence. The evidence for a trigger acting in pregnancy is also based on the large number of reported cases, and particularly on the frequency of mothers experiencing two or more prepartum episodes. There is evidence, especially from surveys, of bipolar episodes triggered by abortion (miscarriage or termination). The evidence for a weaning trigger rests on 32 cases in the literature, of which 14 were recurrent. The relative frequency of these five triggers is given by the number of cases in the literature – just over half early postpartum onset, 20% each late postpartum and prepartum onset, and the rest post-abortion and weaning onset.