| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 186 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Series |
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE
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| Contents |
Cover; Front and back flaps; Frontispiece; Book Title; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Editor's Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Chapter 9; Editor's Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Author Bios; Back Cover |
| Summary |
Written in 1927 but barred from timely publication by the Lincoln family, The Dark Days of Abraham Lincoln's Widow, as Revealed by Her Own Letters is based on nearly two dozen intimate letters written between Mary Lincoln and her close friend Myra Bradwell mainly during the former's 1875 incarceration in an insane asylum. By the 1920s most accounts of Mrs. Lincoln focused on her negative qualities and dismissed her as ""crazy."" Bradwell's granddaughter Myra Helmer Pritchard wrote this distinctly sympathetic manuscript at the behest of her mother, who wished to vindicate Mary Li |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882.
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Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882 -- Correspondence
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Bradwell, Myra, 1831-1894 -- Correspondence
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Bradwell, James B. (James Bolesworth), 1828-1907 -- Correspondence
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Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882 -- Mental health
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| SUBJECT |
Bradwell, James B. (James Bolesworth), 1828-1907 fast |
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Bradwell, Myra, 1831-1894 fast |
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Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882 fast |
| Subject |
Presidents' spouses -- United States -- Biography
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Mental illness -- United States -- Case studies
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- United States -- Civil War Period (1850-1877)
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Mental health
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Mental illness
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Presidents' spouses
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Case studies
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Personal correspondence
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Emerson, Jason, 1975- editor.
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| LC no. |
2010006484 |
| ISBN |
0809386046 |
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9780809386048 |
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1280697598 |
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9781280697593 |
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9786613674555 |
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6613674559 |
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