Elizabeth Packard : a noble fight /
Elizabeth Packard's story is one of courage and accomplishment in the face of injustice and heartbreak. In 1860, her husband, a strong-willed Calvinist minister, committed her to an Illinois insane asylum in an effort to protect their six children and his church from what he considered her here...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Idioma: | anglès |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[2010]
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| Col·lecció: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accés en línia: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctt1xcj83 |
Taula de continguts:
- "All the love his bachelor heart could muster"
- "New notions and wild vagaries"
- Breaking the mold
- Free love and true womanhood
- "The forms of law"
- Andrew McFarland and mental medicine
- "A world of trouble"
- "An unendurable annoyance"
- From courtroom to activism
- "My pen shall rage"
- Shooting the rattlesnakes
- Vindication and "virtuous action"
- Triumph and disaster
- Working in her calling
- "Great and noble work"
- Final campaigns.