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Good medicine and good music : a biography of Mrs. Joe Person, patent remedy entrepreneur and musician, including the complete text of her 1903 autobiography
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"Alice Morgan Person was a North Carolinian. Born wealthy and married well, she fell into hardship after the Civil War but overcame by selling patent medicine and playing and sharing her arrangemen...
"Alice Morgan Person was a North Carolinian. Born wealthy and married well, she fell into hardship after the Civil War but overcame by selling patent medicine and playing and sharing her arrangements of folk tunes. Presented here is her complete and previously unpublished autobiography. In addition, her story is told through new research and first-hand accounts"--Provided by publisher.
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- Creator
- David Hursh and Chris Goertzen
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [2009]
- ©2009
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- xi, 208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780786434596, 0786434597
- OCLC
- ocn298304618
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-203) and index.
Subjects
- Person, Alice Morgan, 1840-1913.
- Women folk musicians -- North Carolina -- Biography.
- Folk musicians -- North Carolina -- Biography.
- Patent medicines -- North Carolina -- History.
- Businesswomen -- North Carolina -- Biography.
- Folk music -- North Carolina -- History and criticism.
- Drugs, Nonprescription.
- History, 19th Century -- North Carolina -- biography.
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- History, 20th Century -- North Carolina -- biography.
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- Music -- history -- North Carolina -- biography.
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- North Carolina -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
- North Carolina -- Biography.