Review

Locked up for insanity, Elizabeth Packard epitomised the prejudice of the 1860s

By Penelope Cottier
September 25 2021 - 12:00am
  • The Woman They Could Not Silence, by Kate Moore. Scribe, $35.

Kate Moore has written a biography of Elizabeth Packard, who spent three years in the Illinois State Hospital, declared insane, largely on the say of her husband.

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