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Hardback |
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576 pages
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978-1-905802-10-4 |
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4th March 2008 |
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£16.99 |
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Export Soft Back |
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576 pages |
ISBN |
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978-1-905802-11-1 |
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4th March 2008 |
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£12.99 |
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(May 20th)
Mrs Mary Lincoln admitted today – from Chicago – Age
56 – Widow of ex-President Lincoln – declared
insane by the Cook County Court May 19th – 1875.
Patient Progress Reports for Bellevue Place Sanatorium.
Incarcerated in an insane asylum after committal proceedings instigated
by her own son, Mary Lincoln resolves to tell her own story in order
to preserve and to prove her own sanity. Details of her first encounters
with Abraham Lincoln, their courtship, marriage and troubled relationship
are interspersed with disturbing accounts of the ‘treatment’ and
behaviour of the women around her as she fights to be released from
the sanatorium.
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