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Money, marriage, and madness : the life of Anna Ott / Kim E. Nielsen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nielsen, Kim E., author.
- Series:
- Disability histories.
- Illinois scholarship online.
- Disability histories
- Illinois scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physicians' spouses--United States--Biography.
- Physicians' spouses.
- Women physicians--United States--Biography.
- Women physicians.
- Physicians--United States--Biography.
- Physicians.
- Abused wives--United States--Biography.
- Abused wives.
- Divorce--United States--History--19th century.
- Divorce.
- Mentally ill--Commitment and detention--United States.
- Mentally ill.
- Women--United States--Social conditions--19th century.
- Women.
- Ott, Anna Miesse, 1819-1893.
- Ott, Anna Miesse.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (118 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- 'Money, Marriage, and Madness' is a story of the medical profession, a woman's wealth and the gendered property laws in which she operated, marital violence, marriage and divorce, institutional incarceration, and an alleged bank robbery.
- Contents:
- Mrs. Anna Miesse, Local Doctor's Wife
- The Questions of 1855
- Miesse v. Miesse,
- The Questions of 1856
- Dr. Anna B. Ott, Local Doctress
- Anna Ott, Insane Asylum Inmate
- Anna Ott, Economic Agent
- Remembering Anna Ott.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 27, 2020).
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- ISBN:
- 9780252052026
- 0252052021
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