took 20 years to find a publisher. The Private War of Mrs. Packard is a true biography of this important woman. Linda V. Carlisle and University of Illinois Press brought out Elizabeth Packard: A Noble Fight in 2010. Includes individual legislation that Packard campaigned for and/or helped bring about. Barbara Hambly refers to Elizabeth Packard in some detail in her 2005 novel on the insanity of Mary Todd Lincoln (The Emancipator's Wife: A Novel of Mary Todd Lincoln.) Emily Mann wrote the play Mrs. Packard, which premiered in May 2007. In Mann's play, Packard describes her life fully in the insane asylum; it is considered historically accurate. Kate Moore tells the story of Elizabeth Packard in "The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear". See also The Yellow Wallpaper References Further reading Cooley, Thomas (2001). The Ivory Leg in the Ebony Cabinet: Madness, Race, and Gender in Victorian America, University of Massachusetts Press, . Holmes, Melanie (2020), Manteno: Images of America, Arcadia Publishing, ISBN 9781467104487 Moore, Kate (2021), The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear, Sourcebooks, Norgen, Jill (2013), Rebels at the Bar: The Fascinating, Forgotten Stories of America's First Women Lawyers, New York University Press, . Packard, Elizabeth, The Prisoners' Hidden Life Or Insane Asylums Unveiled (1868) Kessinger Publishing, LLC (February 21, 2008) . Packard, Elizabeth, Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial Fred B Rothman & Co (October 1994) . Sigurðardóttir, Elísabet Rakel (2013). Women and Madness in the 19th Century: The effects of oppression on women's mental health, University of Ireland. . Wood, Mary Elene (1994), The Writing on the Wall: Women's Autobiography and the Asylum, University of Illinois Press, . External links 1816 births 1897 deaths American women's rights activists 19th-century American memoirists American women non-fiction writers People from Kankakee County, Illinois American health activists Mental health activists Activists from Illinois American women memoirists 19th-century American women writers Writers from Illinois