Kate Moore Book Set: Two Fascinating Stories of Incredible Women in History from a Bestselling Author (The Radium Girls and The Woman They Could Not Silence)

Kate Moore

ISBN-13
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Year
2022
Format
Paperback, new

Two-book set by Kate Moore (Sourcebooks, 2022). Pairs The Radium Girls, on women in radium-dial factories and their battle for workers' rights, with The Woman They Could Not Silence, on Elizabeth Packard. Paperback.

About this book

This book set brings together two stories of women in history by Kate Moore: The Radium Girls and The Woman They Could Not Silence. Sourcebooks published the set in paperback in 2022.

The Radium Girls tells the true story of women exposed to radium in factories across the U.S. in the early 20th century and their battle to strengthen workers’ rights, even as the poison claimed their lives. The Woman They Could Not Silence follows Elizabeth Packard, a housewife and mother of six whose husband had her committed to the Illinois State Hospital in Jacksonville in 1860. Moore also writes about the other sane women held on her ward.

Product details

Mind, Faith & Society › Biography & True Stories

PublisherSourcebooks
Published2022
AuthorKate Moore
FormatPaperback
ISBN-13978-1-7282-8054-7
ISBN-101728280540
Size8.4 × 5.6 × 3.1 in · 2.2 lb
ConditionNew

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