The Private War of Mrs. Packard: The Dramatic Story of a Nineteenth-Century Feminist
Barbara Sapinsky. Kodansha America, $14 (222pp) ISBN 978-1-56836-106-2
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. (Jan.)
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Reviewed on: 12/04/1995
Genre: Nonfiction