Marital power exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial
Subtitle: 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
By: by Mrs. E.P.W. Packard.
Publisher: Case, Lockwood
Published: 1867
Place of publication: Hartford, [Conn.]
Format: Microform
Subjects: Women -- Religious life.; Married women.
Description: This report of the trial and subsequent events surrounding the case of a woman committed to an insane asylum reveals the need for legal reforms regarding women's marital rights in the nineteenth century.