Elizabeth Packard: A Noble Fight

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Notes Introduction 1.Neely and McMurtry, Insanity File, 21,26. See also Baker, Mary Todd Lincoln, 221.For the best recent study of Mary Lincoln’s mental illness, see Emerson, Madness of Mary Lincoln. 2. Slovenko, “Highlights in the History of Law and Psychiatry,” 464. 3.See Hatch, Democratization of American Christianity; Wacker, Religion in 19th Century America; and Butler, Awash in a Sea of Faith. 4. For more on the development of institutional care and treatment of the insane, see works by Deutsch, Digby, Dwyer, Grob, Hurd, McGovern, and Tomes cited in the bibliography. 5.Jennifer Levison refers to Packard similarly as a “border woman.” See Levison, “Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard,” 1075. 6. See Stanton et al., History of Woman Suffrage I, 465.See also Dixon, Perfecting the Family, 1997. 7. Packard, Exposure, 112. 8. Deutsch, Mentally Ill in America, 424n. 9. See Dunton, “Mrs. Packard and Her Influence,” 419–23. 10.Ibid., 423. 11.Dunton, “Further Note on Mrs. Packard,” 192–93. 12.Dewey, “Jury Law for Commitment,” 575. 13. Ibid., 572–73. 14. Ibid., 581. 15.Deutsch, Mentally Ill in America, 306–7, 424n. 16. Szasz, Manufacture of Madness, 131. 17. Chesler, Women and Madness, 101. 18.Himelhoch and Shaffer, “Elizabeth Packard,” 343–75. 19. Geller, “Women’s Accounts of Psychiatric Illness,” 1056, 1061. 20. Geller and Harris, Women of the Asylum, 7–8. For other anthologies that include excerpts from Packard’s books, see Shannonhouse and Cullen-DuPont. 21.Huber, Questions of Power, 53. 22. Letter, J. C. Burnham to Barbara Sapinsley, 13 June 1971. 23.Ibid. 24. Wood, Writing on the Wall, 15, 30. 25.Levison, “Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard,” 1075. 26. Neely and McMurtry, Insanity File, 19–21, 26, 68, 108. 27. Friedman, America’s First Woman Lawyer, 205–8. 28. Lightner, Asylum, Prison, and Poorhouse, 108, 11 4–17. 29. Hartog, Man & Wife in America, 123–2 4. 30. Basch, Framing American Divorce, 74–75. 31.Barton, History and Influence, 64. 32. Johnson, Out of Bedlam, 11–12. 33.Grob, Mad Among Us, 94, 133. Chapter 1. “ All the Love His Bachelor Heart Could Muster” 1.Packard, Great Drama III, 36. 2. Catalogue of Amherst Female Seminary, 7. 3. Packard, Great Drama III, 250. 4. Packard, Exposure, 36, 38. 5.Dunglison, Dictionary of Medical Science, 374, 667. 6. Ibid. 7. Commitment form for Elizabeth Parsons Ware, Worcester Insane Asylum Records. Used by permission of the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health. See also Deutsch, Mentally Ill in America, 149; Grob, Mental Institutions in America, 102; and Barton, History and Influence, 168. 8. Patient record No. 404, 1836, Worcester Insane Asylum Records. 9. Ibid. 10.Felter, Eclectic Materia Medica. 11.Dunglison, Dictionary of Medical Science, 565. 12.Patient record No. 404, 1836, Worcester Insane Asylum Records. 13. Ibid. 14. Dunglison, Dictionary of Medical Science, 60. 15.Packard, Exposure, 38–39. 16. Gosling and Ray, “The Right To Be Sick,” 256–58.See also Smith-Rosenberg and Rosenberg, “The Female Animal,” 332–56; and Smith-Rosenberg, “The Hysterical Woman,” 652–78. 17. Packard, Exposure, 38. 18.Packard, Modern Persecution I, 77. 19. Packard, Great Drama II, 190. 20. Packard, Great Drama IV, 170. 21.Theophilus Packard, Diary, 2, 12–1 4. 22. Ibid., 11. 23.Tyler, History of Amherst College, 24–25, passim; and Theophilus Packard, Sr., letters to Mary Lyon, 26 March, 13 May and July 1834, Mary Lyon Collection. 24. Theophilus Packard, Diary, 14–15. 25.Ibid., 19, 29–30. 26. Ibid., 38, 40. 27. Ibid., 46–47, 55. 202 no t es t o i nt r oduc t ion a nd c h a pt er 1 28. Dorrien, Making of American Liberal ἀ eology, 346; Theophilus Packard, Diary, 61, 63. 29. Theophilus Packard, Diary, 63–66. 30. Dunglison, Dictionary of Medical Science, 308. 31.Theophilus Packard, Diary, 68. 32. Ibid., 69. 33.Ibid., 72–74. 34. Ibid., 74–75. 35.Ibid., 5. 36. Ibid., 182. 37 . Ibid., 101–3. 38. Ibid., 106–7. 39. Ibid., 122. 40. Ibid., 77–78. 41.Ibid., 80; and Dorrien, Making of American Liberal ἀ eology, 184. 42. Hatch, Democratization of American Christianity, 17. 43.Smith, Revivalism & Social Reform, 26–27;and Dorrien, Making of American Liberal ἀ eology, 184. 44. Theophilus Packard, Diary, 81. Chapter 2. “New Notions and Wild Vagaries” 1.Theophilus Packard, Diary, 147. 2. Packard, Great Drama IV, 68. 3. Theophilus Packard, Diary, 155.He traced his genealogy to Samuel Packard, who came “with...