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Voices from a trunk : the lost lives of the Quaker Eddisons, 1805-1867
"A chance discovery of a trunk of documents by the author opened up a window into the rapidly expanding cities of Leeds and London in the nineteenth century. Cholera epidemics, Luddite disruptions, hopeless medical interventions, the birth of the railways, a discovery of a murder, the mystery o...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Staunton, Virginia :
American History Press,
[2016]
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"A chance discovery of a trunk of documents by the author opened up a window into the rapidly expanding cities of Leeds and London in the nineteenth century. Cholera epidemics, Luddite disruptions, hopeless medical interventions, the birth of the railways, a discovery of a murder, the mystery of an ancestor believed to be the great-great grandfather of the renowned inventor Thomas Alva Edison, a great Quaker bank crash, and travel in an America recovering from the Civil War--all were intertwined with the story of the painful life of a Leeds lawyer, Edwin Eddison"--Provided by publisher. |
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xvi, 275 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-265) and index. |
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9781939995162 1939995167 |