The dark days of Abraham Lincoln's widow, as revealed by her own letters / Myra Helmer Pritchard ; edited and annotated by Jason Emerson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pritchard, Myra Helmer, -1947.

Contributor:

Emerson, Jason, 1975-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Presidents' spouses--United States--Biography.

Presidents' spouses.

Mental illness--United States--Case studies.

Mental illness.

Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882.

Lincoln, Mary Todd.

Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882--Correspondence.

Bradwell, Myra, 1831-1894--Correspondence.

Bradwell, Myra.

Bradwell, James B. (James Bolesworth), 1828-1907--Correspondence.

Bradwell, James B.

Lincoln, Mary Todd, 1818-1882--Mental health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

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 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

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-69759-8

9786613674555

0-8093-8604-6

OCLC:

742517206