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The Woman They Could Not Silence
- One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
- Narrated by: Kate Moore
- Length: 14 hrs and 36 mins
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The Woman They Could Not Silence
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Publisher's Summary
Elizabeth Packard was an ordinary Victorian housewife and mother of six. That was, until the first Woman’s Rights Convention was held in 1848, inspiring Elizabeth and many other women to dream of greater freedoms. She began voicing her opinions on politics and religion – opinions that her husband did not share. Incensed and deeply threatened by her growing independence, he had her declared ‘slightly insane’ and committed to an asylum.
Inside the Illinois State Hospital, Elizabeth found many other perfectly lucid women who, like her, had been betrayed by their husbands and incarcerated for daring to have a voice. But just because you are sane, doesn’t mean that you can escape a madhouse....
Fighting the stigma of her gender and her supposed madness, Elizabeth embarked on a ceaseless quest for justice. It not only challenged the medical science of the day and saved untold others from suffering her fate, it ultimately led to a giant leap forward in human rights the world over.
Critic Reviews
"Kate Moore has a rare gift for combining impeccable research and brilliantly mesmerizing storytelling." (Hank Phillippi Ryan, USA Today best-selling author of The First to Lie and Her Perfect Life)
"I have waited fifty years for this full-length biography of Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard, and Kate Moore's The Woman They Could Not Silence is simply magnificent." (Phyllis Chesler, best-selling author and feminist leader)
"In Moore's expert hands, this beautifully-written tale unspools with drama and power, and puts Elizabeth Packard on the map at the most relevant moment imaginable." (Liza Mundy, New York Times best-selling author of Code Girls)
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- Emma
- 06-05-2024
Incredible, what a story!
This book was captivating, extremely well researched and put together. I loved how the story progressed at pace, the details of her life and challenges would be incredible still today.
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- Anonymous User
- 18-07-2024
Historically impressive
The way this story is told is amazing. Historical yet engaging. Thank you for telling this story.
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- Katherine Avery
- 28-02-2023
Compelling
Thank goodness we have developed our capacity for logic. It was hard to fathom how apparently intelligent people arrived at such ridiculous conclusions.
The arrogance of some of the men - not a lot has changed here...
There were some assertions that didn't add up, but on the whole, a well structured and researched book.
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- Anonymon
- 18-10-2024
Incredible
Beautiful narration, of an amazing story. I’d not heard of Elizabeth or what she and her ‘sisters’ endured, though I’d heard horror stories of asylums.
I do think the book could have been shortened a bit, yet I enjoyed the wonderful sentence structures and descriptions.
Today there are still men who would love to lock up women they cannot mentally compete with. 😉
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