Autobiography: Sketch of Life and Labors of Miss Catherine S. Lawrence, Who in Early Life Distinguished Herself as a Bitter Opponent of Slavery and Intemperance
Autobiography: Sketch of Life and Labors of Miss Catherine S. Lawrence, Who in Early Life Distinguished Herself as a Bitter Opponent of Slavery and Intemperance
Catherine S Lawrence
Albany, N.Y. : J.B. Lyon, 1896
Revised edition, 1896 (first published in 1893). Bound in contemporary brown leather. Gilt ruled. Gilt dentelle. All edges gilt. Some rubbing to cover. Clean, unmarked pages. 238 pages : frontispiece, portraits ; 20 cm. "Amid this stream of abolitionist tirades are a few references to wartime hospitals at the front and behind the lines." - Nevins II, page 130. Lawrence was an ardent abolitionist and temperane worker. She labored as a nurse during the civil war and wrote this book to supplement her $12 monthly pension.