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The Madness of Mary Lincoln is the first examination of Mary Lincoln's mental illness based on the lost letters, and the first new interpretation of the insanity case in twenty years. This compelling story of the purported insanity of one of America's most tragic first ladies provides new...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Emerson, Jason, 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Lincoln, Mary Todd, > 1818-1882.
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865.
Lincoln, Abraham, > 1809-1865 > Family.
Lincoln, Mary Todd, > 1818-1882 > Mental health.
Presidents' spouses.
Mental illness.
Mental health.
Families.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
HISTORY.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Maladies mentales > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Mental illness > United States > Case studies.
Presidents' spouses > United States > Biography.
United States.
Études de cas.
Biographies.
Case studies.
collective biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Much like an April day
  • A most painful time of anxiety
  • No right to remain upon earth
  • Of unsound mind
  • Mrs. Lincoln admitted today
  • It does not appear that God is good
  • No more insane than I am
  • A deeply wronged woman
  • Resignation will never come
  • 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  • Appendix 1 : Unpublished Mary Todd Lincoln letters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 Lincoln / James S. Brust, M.D.

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