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The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tri(183)

Author:Kate Moore

11“You can have”: Ibid., 365.

12“The idea of”: Hendrik Hartog, “Mrs. Packard on Dependency,” Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities 1, no. 1 (1989): 91, https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/yjlh/vol1/iss1/6/.

13“conscientiously get”: EP, MP2, 67.

14“When Will the”: “When Will the War End?” Chicago Tribune, January 21, 1864.

15“Depravity of a”: “Depravity of a Clergyman,” Chicago Tribune, January 28, 1864.

16“a willing tool”: Ibid.

17“I may here”: AM, “Packard Insanity Case.”

18“respectfully request”: TP, “Sad Case.”

19“sham”: TP, “Charge Against Rev. Mr. Packard.”

20“illegal and oppressive”: TP, “Account of the Insanity Case.”

21“the impudent”: TP, “The Question of Mrs. Packard’s Sanity,” Northampton Free Press, April 20, 1866.

22“the reliable”: TP, letter to the editor, Chicago Tribune, February 1, 1864, in “The Packard Case,” Chicago Tribune, February 6, 1864.

23“I see not”: Reverend Robert Crawford, letter to William Bross, editor of the Chicago Tribune, February 23, 1864, in “The Packard Case,” Chicago Tribune, March 12, 1864.

24“two talented men”: EP, MK, 13.

25“repeated and”: Bill of complaint for divorce, Kankakee County Circuit Court, February 8, 1864.

26“using violence”: Ibid.

27“unhallowed influence”: TP, “Account of the Insanity Case.”

28“I do say”: EP, GD, 1:141.

29“Woman cannot be”: Ibid., 2:241.

30“doubt, despondency”: EP, MP2, 366.

31“supplanted by plenty”: Ibid.

32“become my own”: Ibid., 72.

33“17.5 cents a shirt”: Statistic from Thomas H. O’Connor, Civil War Boston: Home Front and Battlefield (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997), 166.

34“$1.54 (about $25)”: Ibid.

35“$7 (about $115)” and following salary statistic: Chicago Times, February 3, 1864, in Theodore J. Karamanski and Eileen M. McMahon, eds., Civil War Chicago: Eyewitness to History (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2014), 187.

36“sugar, a unit”: Cost of living statistics from Chicago Tribune, July 20, 1864, in ibid., 188.

37“No talent can”: EP, letter to Fidelia Fiske, March 3, 1846, Shelburne Free Public Library Fidelia Fiske Collection.

38“the many thousands”: Mrs. Packard’s Reproof, 3.

39“Knowing as I do”: Ibid.

40“enlighten the public”: Ibid., 31.

41“caus[e] their”: Ibid.

42“immense mass”: “The Packard Case,” Chicago Tribune, March 12, 1864.

43Following quotations: Ibid.

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1“dazzling entrance”: EP, GD, 2:141.

2“the unmistakable signs”: Chicago Tribune, October 8, 1863, in Reminiscences of Chicago During the Civil War (Chicago: Lakeside, 1914), xi–xii.

3“a combination of”: Franc Wilkie, 1860, quoted in Perry R. Duis, Challenging Chicago: Coping with Everyday Life, 1837–1920 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998), 11.

4“more ostentation”: TP, TPD, 67 (April 1834)。

5“The facts of”: EP, MPE, 117.

6“My skirts are”: Mrs. Packard’s Reproof, 31.

7“fit for [his]”: Ibid., 17.

8“I shan’t trouble”: EP, GD, 1:279.

9“health, education”: EP, MP2, 380.

10“invincible determination”: Ibid., 86.

11“sham”: TP, “Charge Against Rev. Mr. Packard.”

12“much study”: EP, MP2, 85.

13“I must first”: Ibid.

14“The Bearer is”: EP’s “tickets,” as reproduced in ibid.

15“The subscriber wishes”: “Notice: The Great Drama,” Chicago Tribune, March 23, 1864.

16“risked ruining”: Susan M. Cruea, “Changing Ideals of Womanhood During the Nineteenth-Century Woman Movement,” General Studies Writing Faculty Publications 1 (2005): 194.

17“I write in”: T. Packard Jr. (Toffy Packard), letter to Samuel Ware, March 29, 1864, in “The Question of Mrs. Packard’s Sanity,” Northampton Free Press, May 15, 1866.

18“The more freedom”: EP, GD, 4:12 [italics added].