Elizabeth Packard : a noble fight /

Carlisle, Linda V., 1947-

Elizabeth Packard : a noble fight / Linda V. Carlisle. - Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2010. - 1 online resource

Includes bibliographies and index.

"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.



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Psychiatric hospital patients--Illinois--Biography.
Social reformers--Illinois--Biography.
Women social reformers--Illinois--Biography.
Mentally ill--Commitment and detention--United States--Case studies.
Mentally ill--Civil rights--United States--Case studies.
Husband and wife--United States--Case studies.
Married women--Civil rights--United States--Case studies.
Women's rights--United States--Case studies.
Patients.
Mentally Ill Persons
Patients
Commitment of Mentally Ill--legislation & jurisprudence
History, 19th Century
Mentally Ill Persons--legislation & jurisprudence
Women's Rights--history


Electronic Books.

RC464 / .E459 2010