Money, marriage, and madness : the life of Anna Ott /

"Anna Ott died in the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane in 1893. She had enjoyed status and financial success first as a physician's wife and then as the only female doctor in Madison. Throughout her first marriage, attempts to divorce her abusive second husband, and twenty years of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nielsen, Kim E. (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2020]
Series:Disability histories (Series)
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/j.ctv137971j
Table of Contents:
  • Mrs. Anna Miesse, Local Doctor's Wife
  • The Questions of 1855
  • Miesse v. Miesse,
  • The Questions of 1856
  • Dr. Anna B. Ott, Local Doctress
  • Anna Ott, Insane Asylum Inmate
  • Anna Ott, Economic Agent
  • Remembering Anna Ott.