Money, Marriage, and Madness: The Life of Anna Ott

by Kim E. Nielsen

Book Overview

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 institutionalization, Ott determinedly shaped her own life.

Kim E. Nielsen explores a life at once irregular and unexceptional. Historical and institutional structures,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252085019
• ISBN13: 9780252085017
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"