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The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tri(166)

Author:Kate Moore

20“When all the”: EP, TE, 5.

21“Scarcely anyone seems”: EP, GD, 2:74.

22“passed beyond”: Ibid., 1:5.

23“Sometimes”: EP, PHL, 197.

24“wail of horror”: EP, “My Reproof,” MP1, 129.

25“a lady of”: Ibid., 133.

26“sisters in bonds”: SO, MO, 26, in PHL, page 380 in PDF.

27“If you ever”: Mrs. Hosmer, quoted by EP, GD, 1:303.

28“So long as”: Ibid.

29“I know more”: Ibid.

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1“Mrs. Packard…”: EP says of the patients of the lower wards, “Several times…I was saluted by name, from these windows,” MK, 60.

2“never could see”: EP, GD, 2:94.

3“No one was”: SO, MO, 72, in PHL, page 426 in PDF.

4“false imprisonment”: J. C. and Celia Coe, in notices “sent to several New England and Western papers a short time since,” quoted in “An Appeal in Behalf of the Insane” (June 18, 1862), reproduced in Mrs. Packard’s Reproof to Dr. McFarland for His Abuse of His Patients, and for Which He Called Her Hopelessly Insane, (Chicago, 1864), 26.

5“She is not”: Ibid. EP also quotes Farmer Jones saying the same thing in TE, 88–89.

6“All…we get”: EP, GD, 4:56.

7“so much more”: Ibid., 180. For those interested in the specific wages of asylum attendants, the most recent source for these in relation to Elizabeth’s time comes from the Third Biennial Report of the Illinois State Hospital, covering the years 1851–52. Most female attendants took home $10 a month (about $336 today)。 In contrast, male attendants were paid $20 a month (about $672 today)。 See Reports of the Illinois, 130.

8“intelligent, educated” and following quotation: AM, “Appendix: Superintendent’s Letter,” February 28, 1868, in Special Report of the Trustees, 102.

9“colored races”: AM, “Attendants in Institutions,” 57–60.

10“The unworthy”: AM, “Appendix: Superintendent’s Letter,” 102.

11“what they needed”: EP, GD, 2:231.

12“I never saw”: Ibid., 1:152.

13“a little ale”: EP, PHL, 78.

14“laying on”: Ibid.

15“almost universally”: Ibid.

16“I can tell”: EP, GD, 1:152.

17“always acted upon”: AM, in “Proceedings of the Twelfth,” 96.

18“The insane hospital”: Ibid.

19“[A] curb must”: AM, “The Better Way,” 29.

20“notable only for”: Gerald N. Grob, “Institutional Origins and Early Transformation,” in Joseph P. Morrissey, Howard H. Goldman, and Lorraine V. Klerman, The Enduring Asylum: Cycles of Institutional Reform at Worcester State Hospital (New York: Grune & Stratton, 1980), 31.

21“impropriety”: Dr. Brown, referring to the views of Dr. Churchill of Dublin, in “Proceedings of the AMSAII,” AJOI 26 (October 1869): 169.

22“mischievous”: Ibid., 170.

23“almost always”: Ibid.

24“harmless”: Quoted in Elizabeth A. Sheehan, “Victorian Clitoridectomy: Isaac Baker Brown and His Harmless Operative Procedure,” in The Gender/Sexuality Reader: Culture, History, Political Economy, ed. Roger N. Lancaster and Micaela di Leonardo (New York: Routledge, 1997), 333.

25“foiled in dealing”: Isaac Baker Brown, On the Curability of Certain Forms of Insanity, Epilepsy, Catalepsy, and Hysteria in Females (London: Robert Hardwicke, 1866), vi.

26“without being able”: Ibid.

27“peripheral excitement”: Ibid.

28“down to the”: Ibid., 43.

29“by scissors”: Ibid., 17.

30“The rapid improvement”: Ibid., 18.

31“distaste for marital”: Ibid., 22.

32“distaste for the”: Ibid., 26.

33“sterility or”: Ibid., 16.

34“in serious reading”: Ibid., 37.

35“restless and excited”: Ibid., 14–15.

36“became in every”: Ibid., 30.

37“unsexed”: Ibid., 79.

38“nothing of the”: Ibid.

39“most wretched”: Ibid.

40“Daily experience convinces”: Ibid., vi.

41“Would anyone strip”: T. Spencer Wells, Alfred Hegar, and Robert Battey, “Castration in Nervous Diseases: A Symposium,” American Journal of Medical Science 92, no. 10 (1886): 466.