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“Elizabeth’s mind spun from what he told her. Under the laws of the United States at that time, a man’s wife was his property: Theophilus could do as he wished. She later wrote in bleak despair, “I…have married away all the freedom I ever had in America” OOF

And her “diluted calvinist sisters” pressuring her to boot.

This is long and sometimes gets a little bogged down, but ultimately is a fascinating history of women's rights and the history of how mental illness has been treated in the past.