Voices from a Trunk: The Lost Lives of the Quaker Eddisons 1805-1867

This title is printed to order. This book may have been self-published. If so, we cannot guarantee the quality of the content. In the main most books will have gone through the editing process however some may not. We therefore suggest that you be aware of this before ordering this book. If in doubt check either the author or publisher’s details as we are unable to accept any returns unless they are faulty. Please contact us if you have any questions.

A chance discovery of a trunk of documents by author Sara Woodall opened up a window onto 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 unknown great-great grandfather of renowned inventor Thomas Alva Edison, an unsettling great Quaker bank crash and travel in America newly recovering from the Civil War - all were intertwined with the painful life of Leeds lawyer Edwin Eddison.

Format: 6 x 9 perfect bound paperback, color cover and interior on permanent paper, printed in the United States

Pages 294, including Acknowledgments, Family Tree, Prologue, twenty chapters of text, Bibliography, Index and About the Author.

Illustrations: 173, including period photographs, engravings, newspaper images, etchings and Eddison/Edison family trees

ISBN 13: 978-1-939995-16-2

Library of Congress Number: 2016031061