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Elizabeth T. Stone

b. 1811

Remembered for a fierce, deeply personal account of wrongful confinement, this 19th-century American writer turned her own suffering into a public protest against asylum abuse.

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A Sketch of the Life of Elizabeth T. Stone and of Her Persecutions With an Appendix of Her Treatment and Sufferings While in the Charlestown McLean Assylum, Where She Was Confined Under the Pretence of Insanity

A Sketch of the Life of Elizabeth T. Stone and of Her Persecutions With an Appendix of Her Treatment and Sufferings While in the Charlestown McLean Assylum, Where She Was Confined Under the Pretence of Insanity

by Elizabeth T. Stone

About the author

Elizabeth T. Stone was an American author born in 1811. She is best known for A Sketch of the Life of Elizabeth T. Stone, and of Her Persecutions (1842), a short autobiographical work describing her confinement in the Charlestown McLean Asylum and the treatment she said she endured there.

Modern scholarship notes that after her release from McLean in 1842, she published an exposé of her experience and went on to write several more books criticizing asylum practices and religious persecution. Her writing stands out as an early firsthand challenge to the power of 19th-century mental institutions.

Some biographical records list her birth as June 3, 1811, in Westford, Massachusetts, and her death on November 29, 1897, in San Francisco. A clear, reliably verifiable portrait was not available from the sources I found.