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About Elizabeth Packard
Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard, also known as E.P.W. Packard, was an American advocate for the rights of women and people perceived to have insanity. She was wrongfully committed to an insane asylum by her husband, who claimed that she had been insane for more than three years. At her trial, however, a jury concluded that she was not insane after only seven minutes of deliberation. She later founded the Anti-Insane Asylum Society, campaigning for divorced women to retain custody of their children.
Everything about Elizabeth Packard →- Occupation
- writer, activist, feminist
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- December 28, 1816
- Died
- July 25, 1897