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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

Chapter 1: 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
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The author offers a first-person memoir describing her difficult upbringing, early factory employment, and a fervent religious conversion that reshaped her life, followed by detailed allegations of wrongful confinement and harsh treatment in a Charlestown mental asylum. She narrates the circumstances leading to her commitment, documents medical and custodial abuses she experienced there, and appends reflections addressed to fellow Christians warning against entrusting persecuted believers to secular caretakers. Interwoven are personal reflections on family estrangement, educational hopes, and the psychological and spiritual consequences of enforced medication and institutionalization.

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Title: A Sketch of the Life of Elizabeth T. Stone and of Her Persecutions

Author: Elizabeth T. Stone

Release date: January 20, 2018 [eBook #56407]

Language: English

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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.

1842:

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR.

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Table of Contents  
  PAGE.
PREFACE. 3
REMARKS. 33
CLOSING REMARKS TO CHRISTIANS. 37
ERRATA. 42