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Kate Moore, The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear
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From the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Radium Girls comes another dark and dramatic but ultimately uplifting tale of a forgotten woman whose inspirational journey sparked lasting change for women’s rights and exposed injustices that still resonate today.
As the clash between the states rolls slowly to a boil, Elizabeth Packard, housewife and mother of six, is facing her own battle. The enemy sits across the table and sleeps in the next room. Her husband of twenty-one years is plotting against her because he feels increasingly threatened—by Elizabeth’s intellect, independence, and unwillingness to stifle her own thoughts. So Theophilus makes a plan to put his wife back in her place. One summer morning, he has her committed to an insane asylum. The horrific conditions inside the Illinois State Hospital in Jacksonville, Illinois, are overseen by Dr. Andrew McFarland, a man who will prove to be even more dangerous to Elizabeth than her
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Kate Moore is the author of The Radium Girls, the first-ever narrative non-fiction account of this inspirational true story. Kate was born in Northampton, England and grew up in Peterborough. She studied English Literature at the University of Warwick. A Sunday Times bestselling author, she writes across various genres, from biography and history to gift and humour, and is also in demand as a book editor and ghostwriter. Before becoming a full-time author and freelance editor, she was an editorial director at Penguin Random House UK. Kate is also an actress and traveling researcher.
We talked to Kate in anticipation of her event to discuss her fascinating look at a forgotten piece of history brought to light in The Radium Girls. Learn more about her below, then come meet her and learn more about the radium girls (some were from nearby Ottawa, Illinois!) on Sunday, March 18 at p.m. RSVP here.
What was your favorite book as a kid?
It&#;s hard to pick just one! I was a big fan of The Animals of Farthing Wood by Colin Dann, which had so much drama and emotion in it: it was a series of books about woodland animals who had to find a new home when their forest was bulldozed to the ground. I also loved Caroline B. Cooney&#;s The Fog, The Snow, The Fire series, which we
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