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Life of Abby Hopper Gibbons Told chiefly through her correspondence.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gibbons, Abby Hopper, 1801-1893
Corporate Author: Alexander Street (Firm)
Other Authors: Emerson, Sarah Hopper, 1835- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1896-97.
Series:North American women's letters and diaries.
Subjects:
Gibbons, Abby Hopper, > 1801-1893.
Electronic books.
Biography
Personal correspondence.
Biographies.
Correspondance privée.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Volume 1.
  • Parentage
  • Childhood
  • Early life
  • Meeting with James S. Gibbons
  • Beginnings of anti-slavery
  • Trouble in Friends' meeting
  • Disownment
  • Loss of children
  • Women's Prison Association and Home
  • Death of Isaac T. Hopper
  • William Gibbons
  • Willie's death
  • Visit to Boston
  • General summary
  • John Brown
  • Visits to Cambridge and Salem
  • Willie's memoir
  • Outbreak of the war
  • Falls Church and Winchester
  • Banks's retreat from Strasburg
  • Volume 2.
  • Point Lookout (Journal)
  • Riots of '63
  • Return to Point Lookout
  • Belle Plain and Fredericksburg
  • Death of John Hopper
  • Beverly Hospital
  • After the war
  • Horace Greeley
  • Trip to Albany
  • Diet kitchens
  • President Garfield
  • Eightieth birthday
  • Home life
  • Police matrons
  • Reformatory for women
  • Closing years.