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Book:Name: Kate Moore - The Woman They Could Not Silence (epub)
Format: epub
Size: 2.48 MB
Description:Title: The Woman They Could Not Silence
Author: Kate Moore
Language: English
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Nonfiction
Publisher: Sourcebooks
ISBN: 9781664508170
Total pages: 560 str.
Download from RapidGatorFrom the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes another dark and dramatic but ultimately uplifting tale of a forgotten woman whose inspirational journey sparked lasting change for women's rights and exposed injustices that still resonate today.
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. Her husband of twenty-one years is plotting against her because he feels increasingly threatened-by Elizabeth's intellect, independence, and unwillingness to stifle her own thoughts. So Theophilus makes a plan to put his wife 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...
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