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• catalog abstract "On September 12, 1847, Madaline Edwards wrote in anger and despair to her married lover, a New Orleans businessman named Charles Bradbury: "I am nothing to you only an object of hate ... I would if I dared ask to see you one time more no matter where or how, but I know you will hate me even for the desire. Oh! God can you ever know my feelings." A final bitter exchange of letters followed, and then their four-year affair was over. Cut off from Bradbury's support and under to pressure to vacate the house he had provided for her, Edwards was alone and on her own. Estranged from most of her family and without prospects for employment or a respectable marriage, she was more than ever at odds with a society that placed a premium on women's domestic stability and dependence on men. All that is likely to be known about the affair is told in this selection of Edwards's private writings. Offering a rare glimpse into the life and mind of an ordinary woman on the fringes of her middle-class society, the writings reveal the emotional, material, and economic contours of the relationship and convey Edwards's gnawing ambivalence about the high personal cost of the choices she had made. Edwards eventually left New Orleans for California, where she died in 1854 and was buried in a pauper's grave. Charles Bradbury outlived her by a quarter-century. As Upton says in his preface, "In the face of the glib talk of 'resistance' and 'subversion' current in some types of social history scholarship, Edwards reminds us that it is a more common human experience simply to get by, hoping for small forward steps rather than enormous leaps and usually achieving neither." Her writings are a moving and eloquent testimony to one who fought to retain her dignity and sense of self in a world that had little place for a woman on her own.".
• catalog contributor b8372466.
• catalog contributor b8372467.
• catalog coverage "New Orleans (La.) Biography.".
• catalog coverage "San Francisco (Calif.) Biography.".
• catalog created "1996.".
• catalog date "1996".
• catalog date "1996.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "On September 12, 1847, Madaline Edwards wrote in anger and despair to her married lover, a New Orleans businessman named Charles Bradbury: "I am nothing to you only an object of hate ... I would if I dared ask to see you one time more no matter where or how, but I know you will hate me even for the desire. Oh! God can you ever know my feelings." A final bitter exchange of letters followed, and then their four-year affair was over. Cut off from Bradbury's support and under to pressure to vacate the house he had provided for her, Edwards was alone and on her own. Estranged from most of her family and without prospects for employment or a respectable marriage, she was more than ever at odds with a society that placed a premium on women's domestic stability and dependence on men. All that is likely to be known about the affair is told in this selection of Edwards's private writings. Offering a rare glimpse into the life and mind of an ordinary woman on the fringes of her middle-class society, the writings reveal the emotional, material, and economic contours of the relationship and convey Edwards's gnawing ambivalence about the high personal cost of the choices she had made. Edwards eventually left New Orleans for California, where she died in 1854 and was buried in a pauper's grave. Charles Bradbury outlived her by a quarter-century. As Upton says in his preface, "In the face of the glib talk of 'resistance' and 'subversion' current in some types of social history scholarship, Edwards reminds us that it is a more common human experience simply to get by, hoping for small forward steps rather than enormous leaps and usually achieving neither." Her writings are a moving and eloquent testimony to one who fought to retain her dignity and sense of self in a world that had little place for a woman on her own.".
• catalog extent "xviii, 366 :".
• catalog identifier "0820317586 (alk. paper)".
• catalog issued "1996".
• catalog issued "1996.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Athens : University of Georgia Press,".
• catalog spatial "California San Francisco".
• catalog spatial "Louisiana New Orleans".
• catalog spatial "New Orleans (La.) Biography.".
• catalog spatial "San Francisco (Calif.) Biography.".
• catalog subject "976.3/3505/092 B 20".
• catalog subject "CT275 .E357 1996".
• catalog subject "Edwards, Madaline Selima, 1816-1854.".
• catalog subject "Pioneers California San Francisco Biography.".
• catalog subject "Women Louisiana New Orleans Biography.".
• catalog subject "Women pioneers California San Francisco Biography.".
• catalog title "Madaline : love and survival in antebellum New Orleans / edited by Dell Upton.".
• catalog type "Biography. fast".
• catalog type "text".