cover image The Private War of Mrs. Packard: The Dramatic Story of a Nineteenth-Century Feminist

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.)