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UNINA9910973668903321 |
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Autore |
Pritchard Myra Helmer <d. 1947.> |
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Titolo |
The dark days of Abraham Lincoln's widow, as revealed by her own letters / / Myra Helmer Pritchard ; edited and annotated by Jason Emerson |
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Carbondale, : Southern Illinois University Press, c2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-69759-8 |
9786613674555 |
0-8093-8604-6 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (210 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Presidents' spouses - United States |
Mental illness - United States |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 1920's 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 |
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