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The madness of Mary Lincoln
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- Creator
- Jason Emerson
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2007]
- ©2007
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9786613674272, 0809330105, 9781435663480, 9780809387557, 1280697318, 0809327716, 9781280697319, 9780809327713, 0809387557, 1435663489, 6613674273
- OCLC
- ocn817089126, ocm81252678, ocn246668468
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-250) and index.
- 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am -- A deeply wronged woman -- Resignation will never come -- To be destroyed immediately -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1 : unpublished Mary Todd Lincoln letters -- Appendix 2 : legal documents pertaining to the sale and destruction of the Mary Lincoln insanity letters -- Appendix 3 : the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