laurel [the suspected bibliophile]'s Reviews > The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear

3.5 stars

Very enlightening on the rights—or lack thereof—of women in the 19th century. And how women were deemed hysterical (or too cantankerous or too obstinate or whatever their husbands or fathers deemed they were) were sent away into asylums, where they received horrific treatments and neglect from the quacks who were supposed to be treating them. It very much focuses on middle to upper class whyte women, although there is a small acknowledgement on what women of color and working/lower class whyte women faced.

It was good but good gravy it was long (definitely could tell Moore did her research and then some). But hot damn Elizabeth was the most trusting woman on the planet, even though she was incredibly forthright and brilliant.