"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 ...
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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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