The madness of Mary Lincoln [electronic resource] / Jason Emerson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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--Mental health.

Lincoln, Mary Todd.

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Family.

Lincoln, Abraham.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 2005, historian Jason Emerson discovered a steamer trunk formerly owned by Robert Todd Lincoln's lawyer and stowed in an attic for forty years. The trunk contained a rare find: twenty-five letters pertaining to Mary Todd Lincoln's life and insanity case, letters assumed long destroyed by the Lincoln family. Mary wrote twenty of the letters herself, more than half from the insane asylum to which her son Robert had her committed, and many in the months and years after. The Madness of Mary Lincoln is the first examination of Mary Lincoln's mental illness b

Contents:

Cover; Book Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Much like an April Day; 2. A Most Painful Time of Anxiety; 3. No Right to Remain upon Earth; 4. Of Unsound Mind; 5. Mrs. Lincoln Admitted Today; 6. It Does Not Appear That God Is Good; 7. No More Insane than I Am; 8. A Deeply Wronged Woman; 9. Resignation Will Never Come; 10. To Be Destroyed Immediately; Epilogue; Appendix 1: Unpublished Mary Todd Lincoln Letters; Appendix 2: Legal Documents Pertaining to the Sale and Destruction of the Mary Lincoln Insanity Letters

Appendix 3: The Psychiatric Illness of Mary LincolnNotes; Bibliography; Index; Author Bio; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-250) and index.

ISBN:

1-280-69731-8

9786613674272

0-8093-8755-7

1-4356-6348-9

OCLC:

817089126