Fanny Seward: A Life

330 Pages·2015·6.22 MB·English

by  Trudy Krisher

F anny Seward

Trudy Krisher
Fanny Seward
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ISBN: 978-0-8156-1041-0 (cloth) 978-0-8156-5295-3 (e-book)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Krisher, Trudy.
Fanny Seward : a life / Trudy Krisher. — 1st ed.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8156-1041-0 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8156-5295-3 (e-book)
1. Seward, Frances Adeline, 1844–1866. 2. Seward, William Henry, 1801–1872.
3. Seward family. 4. United States—History—Civil War, 1861–1865—Women—Biography.
5. Young women—Washington (D.C.)—Biography. 6. Washington (D.C.)—History—
Civil War, 1861–1865—Biography. I. Title.
CT275.S43458K75 2014
975.3'02092—dc23
[B] 2014040701
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To the irrepressible Jennifer Haines

“One can read a poem or a novel without coming to
know its author, look at a painting and fail to get a
sense of its painter, but one cannot read a diary and
feel unacquainted with its writer.”
—Thomas Mallon, A Book of One’s
Own: People and Their Diaries