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Alice Morgan Person (1840-1913) was a colorful North Carolinian. Born wealthy and married well, she fell into hardship after the Civil War but remarkably overcame it by marketing her own patent medicine and playing and sharing her arrangements of folk tunes. Presented here is her previously unpublished autobiography as well as a detailed account of her life based on new research and first-hand accounts. Her place in the histories of American patent medicine and southern folk music are discussed.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
BOOK I: "The Chivalry of Man as Exemplified in the Life of Mrs. Joe Person": Alice Morgan Person's Story in Her Own Words, 1858-1892
Preface
Foreword
PART
1. The Origin of Mrs. Joe Person's Remedy
2. Castles in the Air
3. The Development of the Remedy
4. More Castles in the Air
5. The Chivalry of Man
6. More Chivalry
7. Clouds—Sunshine: "After the Alps Comes Italy"
8. I Go to Church
9. More Chivalry
10. Partner No. 2
11. Tarboro and Tarboro Ways
12. Partners, Adieu!
PART II: NOTES BY THE WAYSIDE
Flowers Plucked from the Hedges and Thorns from the Briar-Bushes
Poor John!
"Sonny"
Not My Daughter, Oh No!
What Is Happiness?
Big, Rich and a Strong Pillar
An Honest Man Is the Noblest Work of God
A Woman's Opinion
Finale
BOOK II: A Life Out of the Ordinary: Alice's Story in the Words of Others
PART I: THE WOMAN
1. Daughter and Sister
2. Wife and Mother
3. Medicine Maker and Musician
4. Public and Private
PART II: REFLECTIONS ON THE MEDICINE AND THE MUSIC
5. Snake Oil or Native American Medical Marvel?
6. The Remedy and the Turn-of-the-Century Patent Medicine Trade
7. Alice and Music in Fashion
8. Popular Airs, Blue Alsatian Mountains, and Nostalgia
Appendix: Timeline of Alice Morgan Person and Her Company
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
