The Private War of Mrs. Packard: The Dramatic Story of a Nineteenth-Century Feminist - Softcover

Barbara Sapinsley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1568361068 ISBN 13: 9781568361062

Publisher: Kodansha Amer Inc / Kodansha Globe, 1995

Synopsis

International in scope, this series of non-fiction trade paperbacks offers books that explore the lives, customs and thoughts of peoples and cultures around the world. This is the story of 19th-century feminist, Mrs Packard.

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Review:

Illinois housewife Elizabeth Packard took public exception to the views of her minister husband - in the 19th century, when women's roles were very different. So the good Reverand took advantage of the law to have his wife committed to an insane asylum - and Mrs. Packard spent the rest of her life lobbying to change the law. Sapinsley provides a vivid account of this woman's social reform successes and struggles. -- Midwest Book Review

From Publishers Weekly:

Institutionalized by her husband for disagreeing with him on religious matters, Elizabeth Packard fought a long battle to be declared sane, and subsequently to change the laws governing the committing of mental patients in 19th-century America.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Kodansha Amer Inc / Kodansha Globe
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1568361068
• ISBN 13: 9781568361062
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240