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Title The woman they could not silence [large print] : one woman, her incredible fight for freedom, and the men who tried to make her disappear / Kate Moore.
Author Moore, Kate author.
Publisher [Waterville, Maine] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company, 2021.
Copyright ©2021
Description 795 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Edition Large print edition.
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LOCATION CALL NUMBER VOL BARCODE LAST CHECKIN STATUS
 HL-Main Reading Room  LP BIO PAC Nearby on shelf  30631000697553 02-09-23  AVAILABLE
 HM-Main Level  LARGE PRINT BIO PACKARD Nearby on shelf  31248008747477 01-02-24  AVAILABLE
 NS-Adult Collection  LT 303.48 MOO Nearby on shelf  30651004102848 05-01-23  AVAILABLE
 SA-Main Level  LARGE PRINT BIOGRAPHY PACKARD Nearby on shelf  30648510117096 10-20-23  AVAILABLE
 SC-Special Collections  LP 303.484 MOORE Nearby on shelf  30614003961259 (none)  AVAILABLE
 SK-Main Level  LP 303.484092 MOOR Nearby on shelf  30662911955137 02-16-23  AVAILABLE
 SM-Main Level  LP 303.484092 MOOR  30660913249921 11-01-23  AVAILABLE
 SY-Non-Fiction  LARGE 303.48 MOO Nearby on shelf  33390006944975 02-13-23  AVAILABLE
 WH-Large Print  LP B PACKARD Nearby on shelf  30656031311064 05-17-24  AVAILABLE
Note Includes reading group guide and a conversation with the author (pages 627-639).
BIBLIOGRAPHY Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Prologue -- Brave new world -- Dark before the dawn -- My pen shall rage -- Deal with the devil? -- Turning points -- She will rise -- Epilogue -- Postscript.
Summary 1860: As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife and mother of six, is facing her own battle. The enemy sits across the table and sleeps in the next room. Threatened by Elizabeth's intellect, independence, and outspokenness, her husband of twenty-one years is plotting against her and makes a plan to put her back in her place. One summer morning, he has her committed to an insane asylum. The horrific conditions inside the Illinois State Hospital in Jacksonville, Illinois, are overseen by Dr. Andrew McFarland, a man who will prove to be even more dangerous to Elizabeth than her traitorous husband. But most disturbing is that Elizabeth is not the only sane woman confined to the institution. There are many rational women on her ward who tell the same story: they've been committed not because they need medical treatment, but to keep them in line-conveniently labeled "crazy" so their voices are ignored. No one is willing to fight for their freedom, and disenfranchised both by gender and the stigma of their supposed madness, they cannot possibly fight for themselves. But Elizabeth is about to discover that the merit of losing everything is that you then have nothing to lose... -- Provided by publisher.
Subject Packard, E. P. W. (Elizabeth Parsons Ware), 1816-1897.
Social reformers -- Illinois -- Biography.
Married women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century.
Mentally ill -- Commitment and detention -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century.
Insanity (Law) -- United States.
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
Genre Large print books.
Biographies.
Series Thorndike Press large print biography and memoir
ISBN 9781432890223
1432890220