| Description |
x, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-318) and index. |
| Contents |
Secrets and Courtships -- Cost of Consent -- A Girl Born to Luck -- Becoming Mrs. Edison -- An Arduous Adjustment -- Inability to Bond -- If You Want to Succeed, Get Some Enemies -- Out of Sight, Out of Mind -- Disturbances -- Isolation -- Bury Thy Sorrow -- Hiding from the Press -- Between Two Fires -- Concealing the Truth -- Domestic Life in the Trenches -- Wrestling with the Remaining Years -- Epilogue: After Edison -- Postscript: The Children of Thomas Edison. |
| Summary |
"The first and only biography of Mina Miller Edison, the wife of Thomas Edison, the woman who created and shaped the myth of one of the most seminal figures in America's history. Exhaustively researched by author Alexandra Rimer, a Rutgers faculty member and assistant editor at the Thomas Edison Papers, this account draws on unprecedented access to Edison family diaries, memoirs, and letters"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Edison, Mina Miller, 1865-1947.
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Edison, Mina Miller, 1865-1947 -- Marriage.
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Edison, Thomas A. (Thomas Alva), 1847-1931 -- Family.
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West Orange (N.J.) -- Biography.
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| ISBN |
9781493069415 (cloth) |
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