What are you reading these days?
I haven’t had much time for reading lately. Rightly or wrongly, when I’m deep in the writing and editing process, I tend not to read so I only have the one story in my head. But the best nonfiction I most recently read was Karen Abbott’s The Ghosts of Eden Park. And I have Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments waiting for me on my bookshelf once this book is done.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books
Abbott, Karen. Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War. New York: Harper Perennial, 2015.
Baker Brown, Isaac. On the Curability of Certain Forms of Insanity, Epilepsy, Catalepsy, and Hysteria in Females. London: Robert Hardwicke, 1866.
Bardwell, Leila Stone. Vanished Pioneer Homes and Families of Shelburne, Massachusetts. Northampton, MA: Shelburne Historical Society, 1974.
Callaway, Enoch. Asylum: A Mid-Century Madhouse and Its Lessons about Our Mentally Ill Today. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2007.
Carlisle, Linda V. Elizabeth Packard: A Noble Fight. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010.
Casson, Herbert N. Cyrus Hall McCormick: His Life and Work. 1909. Reprint, Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1971.
Chesler, Phyllis. Women and Madness. New York: Doubleday, 1972.
Doyle, Don Harrison. The Social Order of a Frontier Community: Jacksonville, Illinois, 1825–70. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978.
Duis, Perry R. Challenging Chicago: Coping with Everyday Life, 1837–1920. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998.
Geller, Jeffrey L., and Maxine Harris. Women of the Asylum: Voices from Behind the Walls, 1840–1945. New York: Doubleday, 1994.
Grob, Gerald N. The Mad Among Us: A History of the Care of America’s Mentally Ill. New York: Free Press, 1994.
——。 Mental Institutions in America: Social Policy to 1875. New York: Free Press, 1973.
——。 The State and the Mentally Ill: A History of Worcester State Hospital in Massachusetts, 1830–1920. Durham: University of North Carolina Press, 1966.
Hutchinson, William T. Cyrus Hall McCormick: Harvest 1856–1884. New York and London: D. Appleton-Century, 1935.
James, Edward T., Janet Wilson James, and Paul S. Boyer, eds. Notable American Women 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary Vol. II. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971.
Karamanski, Theodore J., and Eileen M. McMahon, eds. Civil War Chicago: Eyewitness to History. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2014.
Kenaga, William F., and George R. Letourneau. History of Kankakee County. Vol. 2. Chicago: Middle-West, 1906.
Lusk, D. W. Eighty Years of Illinois: Politics and Politicians, Anecdotes and Incidents, a Succinct History of the State, 1809–1889. Springfield, IL: H. W. Rokker, 1889.
McFarland, Andrew. The Escape, or Loiterings Amid the Scenes of Story and Song. Boston: B. B. Mussey, 1851.
Mehr, Joseph J. Illinois Public Mental Health Services, 1847 to 2000: An Illustrated History. Victoria, BC: Trafford, 2002.
Merwin, Madelyn （Madge） Bourell, ed. Area History of Manteno, Illinois. Dallas, TX: Curtis Media Corporation, 1993.
Morrissey, Joseph P., Howard H. Goldman, Lorraine V. Klerman, and Associates. The Enduring Asylum: Cycles of Institutional Reform at Worcester State Hospital. New York: Grune & Stratton, 1980.
Neely, Mark E., Jr., and R. Gerald McMurtry. The Insanity File: The Case of Mary Todd Lincoln. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986.
O’Connor, Thomas H. Civil War Boston: Home Front and Battlefield. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997.
Packard, Elizabeth Parsons Ware. The Exposure on Board the Atlantic & Pacific Car of Emancipation for the Slaves of Old Columbia, Engineered by the Lightning Express, or Christianity & Calvinism Compared. With an Appeal to the Government to Emancipate the Slaves of the Marriage Union. Chicago, 1864.
——。 The Great Drama: or, The Millennial Harbinger. 4 vols. Hartford, CT, 1878.
——。 Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard’s Trial, and Self-Defence 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. Chicago: Clarke, 1870.
——。 Modern Persecution, or Insane Asylums Unveiled, as Demonstrated by the Report of the Investigating Committee of the Legislature of Illinois. Vol. 1. New York, 1873.
——。 Modern Persecution, or Married Woman’s Liabilities, as Demonstrated by the Action of the Illinois Legislature. Vol. 2. Hartford, CT, 1874.
——。 Mrs. Packard’s Reproof to Dr. McFarland for His Abuse of His Patients, and for Which He Called Her Hopelessly Insane. Chicago, 1864.