Additional Resources
Elizabeth Packard
- Packard, Elizabeth P. W. Great Disclosure of Spiritual Wickedness!! In High Places with An Appeal to the Government to Protect the Inalienable Rights of Married Women. New York: Arno Press, 1974. First published 1865.
- Packard, Elizabeth P. W. Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard’s Trial and Self-Defense from the Charge of Insanity; or Three Years’ Imprisonment for Religious Belief, by the Arbitrary Will of a Husband, with an Appeal to the Government to so Change the Laws as to Afford Legal Protection to Married Women. Hartford: Case, Lockwood & Company, 1866.
- Packard, Elizabeth P. W. Modern Persecution, or Insane Asylums Unveiled, vol I and II. New York: Arno Press, 1973. First published 1875 by Case, Lockwood & Brainard, Printers and Binders.
- Sapinsley, Barbara. The Private War of Mrs. Packard. New York: Paragon House, 1991.
Madness and Insane Asylums
- Chesler, Phyllis. Women and Madness. New York: Doubleday, 1972.
- Geller, Jeffrey L. and Maxine Harris. Women of the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls, 1840 – 1945. New York: Anchor Books, 1994.
- Goldberg, Ann. Sex, Religion, and the Making of Modern Madness. New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 1999.
- Ussher, Jane M. Women’s Madness: Misogyny or Mental Illness? Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1991.
- Bly, Nellie. “Nellie’s Madhouse Memoir”
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/world/sfeature/memoir.html
- The Disability History Museum
www.disabilitymuseum.org
The Women’s Movement in the Nineteenth Century
