In 1860, Elizabeth Packard was committed to Jacksonville Insane Asylum for “extensive application of body and mind,” or as she put it, “placed there by her husband for thinking.” She spent three years there, enduring horrific abuses alongside countless other women whose husbands and families had abandoned them. When she finally got out, she went after the men, laws, and systems that put her there - and she won.

“The time for downtrodden and oppressed women to have their rights has come. Her voice and her pen are going to move the world.” - Elizabeth Packard

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Books by Elizabeth Packard:

• Marital Power Exemplified, or Three Years Imprisonment for Religious Belief (1864)
• Great Disclosure of Spiritual Wickedness in High Places (1865)
• The Mystic Key or the Asylum Secret Unlocked (1866)
• The Prisoners' Hidden Life, Or Insane Asylums Unveiled (1868)
• The Great Drama (1878)

The docuseries Kathryn mentioned is called Death of a Pastor’s Wife on Netflix.

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📚Sources:

• “The Woman They Could Not Silence” by Kate Moore
• University of Illinois
• Jurist News
• Illinois Department of Human Services

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• National Women’s History Museum
• Disability History Museum

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